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+[[!tag open_issue_hurd]]
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+This hampers [[hurd/translator/nfs]] usability, for example.
+
+IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2012-03-14:
+
+    <civodul> i just realized that ld.so uses mmap unconditionally
+    <civodul> so executables or shared libs can't be used off a netfs-based
+      file system
+    <civodul> that's annoying
+    <tschwinge> civodul: Do you know what it takes to fix libnetfs?  I have no
+      idea.
+    <tschwinge> Never looked at it.
+    <civodul> tschwinge: implementing io_map
+    <civodul> but i think the idea is that io_map typically isn't convenient
+      for network file systems
+    <civodul> which is why it doesn't have it
+    <civodul> the GCS says "thou shall not require mmap" ;-)