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Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> writes:

> Ah true.  I missed the "thin" pack.
>
> Any idea why we should still prevent this?  It is not like it was a 
> technical limitation.

It is a technical limitation.  We have never assumed that the
virtual address space is big enough to hold more than one whole
pack mmapped at the same time.

Lifting this needs the piecemeal mmap() change somebody was
talking about.

I might bite the bullet and do that myself but I've been hoping
to get an appliable patch from somewhere else ;-).