While browsing through the source for /hurd/fifo, I noticed that trivfs_S_io_map was returning EINVAL. It seems like it should be ENODEV. >From the glibc manual...
http://www.gnu.org/manual/glibc-2.2.5/html_node/Memory-mapped-I-O.html Possible mmap errors include: EINVAL Either address was unusable, or inconsistent flags were given. EACCES filedes was not open for the type of access specified in protect. ENOMEM Either there is not enough memory for the operation, or the process is out of address space. ENODEV This file is of a type that doesn't support mapping. ENOEXEC The file is on a filesystem that doesn't support mapping. And it look like its a similar story for some other translators (trans/null.c, trans/new-fifo.c, and pfinet/tunnel.c) as well as the default (libtrivfs/io-map.c). As a comparasion, on my linux system, mmap fails with ENODEV on a fifo. Greg Buchholz _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd