stop using mmap for zip I/O

Andrew Haley aph at redhat.com
Fri Feb 27 09:34:01 UTC 2015


On 26/02/15 22:17, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> There are numerous bug reports about the jvm crashing in libzip...
> Just google for "libzip java crash". The bottom line is that using
> mmap is problematic (I can get into more per OS details if necessary)
> because it will potentially signal when the file size is altered.

So we catch the signal, right?  Maybe there's something I'm missing...

Andrew.




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