mmap failure [was: cygrunsrv + sshd + rsync = 20 times too slow -- throttled?]
Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]
lavr@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Tue Sep 7 21:52:01 GMT 2021
> >
> > With undocumented structure member initialization an issue, maybe better to
> > future proof using e.g.
> >
> > MEM_EXTENDED_PARAMETER mmap_ext = { 0 }; // or memset or bzero
>
> I don't see what this would accomplish. We're already initializing every member
> after Corinna's last patch.
>
Well, if one day MS decides to use some of the Reserved field by splinting off a new
named field out of that bulk of bits, the code will be in trouble again...
While with memset, bzero or C-style initializer, everything is guaranteed to be zapped with 0.
Anton Lavrentiev
Contractor NIH/NLM/NCBI
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