large history: 2GB shared memory limit

[Russ Allbery]

Marco d'Itri <md at Linux.IT> writes:
> On Jul 11, Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> wrote:

>> Right now, yes.

> BTW, do you have plans of integrating my cnfs64/his64 patches?

Yeah, I think so.

> Some people used to do it a few years ago. I remember using an almost as
> good solution, mlocking the history files with a little program similar
> to contrib/mlockfile.c.

I think that requires that you be able to mmap the files (which is the
problem in this case), but I'm not positive.

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