Re: Bug#322309: Debian woody dpkg no longer works with recent linux kernel.

On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 00:16 +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote:

> dpkg in Debian woody (3.0) is broken by recent linux kernels;
> due to the following command changing behavior (mmap of 
> zero-byte length):
> 
>   addr=mmap(NULL, 0, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, fd, 0);
> 
> These bugs are caused by mmap changing behavior; 
> it used to return NULL when given a length of 0.
> However, it now returns -1, and gives back an errno=EINVAL.
> 
Indeed.  This was the sole change in the 1.13.8 release.

Scott
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