Help wanted: configure test for busted mmap

[Damien Miller]

On Tue, 2002-06-25 at 11:38, Nalin Dahyabhai wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 08:03:13PM -0500, Ben Lindstrom wrote:
> > Rejected already.. SysV Shm not an acceptable solution.
> > 
> > Plus too complex to verify in less than a week.
> 
> I'd been wondering about the shm bits.  Still, the non-anonymous mmap()
> to a known-good location looks like a reasonable fallback to me.  Hard-
> coding the directory used to create the temporary file is probably too
> rigid, but I still prefer doing something like this to a configure check.

I don't mind the idea of a non-anon mmap do a file in a root-owned
directory.

-d