Re: Crashes if running WordPerfect 5.1

[Stas Sergeev <stsp@aknet.ru>]

Hello.

Lars_BjÛrndal wrote:
>> $_mapping = "mapfile"
>  Yes, it worked! What happens when you spesify that?
Internal thing. Temporary file is
being used for the shared backing-store
(for storing the DOS memory), instead of
a shared mem. Since the file is being
created in /dev/shm, it will not
be slower than the shared mem, so you
loose nothing.
There is a hack now in CVS which will
make WP to work again even without changing
$_mapping option. That hack was posted also
in that list by Bart, so you can try it, it
works. But I don't think it is a good
fix, to me it looks more like a temporary
solution (it makes mapshm and mapfile API to
behave differently, which is IMHO a potential
source of troubles).
I'll try to come up with something more
fundamental soon, that keeps the API
consistent.
But you can just upgrade from CVS and
forget about that problem. Or stay with
$_mapping="mapfile" - that also works
properly.
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