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Morten Welinder, Thu, Jan 05, 2006 17:45:27 +0100:
> Config files always tend to grow, but I do agree that 4GB config files stretches
> credibility a bit.
> 
> However, empty ones are not unlikely and then mmap will fail.
> 

Shouldn't be a problem: the code in question does not seem to do
anything for empty files and wont even touch the result of mmap.