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Larry McVoy writes:

> But the bigger problem is that you are missing the point
> that I mentioned elsewhere, we are writing to a tmp file,
> the tmp file is NOT mmapped. We mmap only after that file
> is closed and renamed.  We don't map the tmp file.

Recent glibc versions will sometimes use mmap() for stdio.