PrivSep and portability

[Wendy Palm]

i second this.  I currently cannot get the current snapshot to compile.
Crays do not have mmap and don't support shared memory.  compile-time 
configuration would be a name-your-own-deity-send.

wendy

Gert Doering wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've seen a few patches related to the PrivSep works.  As far as I can
> see, it seems to work by using a shared memory segment to communicate.
> 
> I just want to point out that there are some unix systems that do not
> have mmap() (SCO, older SVR3 systems) or that might have problems with
> anonymous shared mmap() (don't have an examples, but e.g. the INN docs
> are full of warnings concerning mmap()).
> 
> So I want to ask you to make the PrivSep stuff compile-time configurable,
> to enable building on "legacy" platforms.
> 
> gert
> 
> PS: my SCO 3 fix for the suid problem seems to have been lost, I'll
> resubmit via bugzilla.
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