[vbox-dev] Python mmap issue with shared folders

[Frank Mehnert]

On Friday 16 September 2011 13:15:40 Michael Sarahan wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have encountered a possible problem with python's memory mapping for
> files in shared folders.  My testing system is a Windows 7 x64 host
> with a Ubuntu 10.04 x86 guest.  When opening a file as a mmap by doing
> the following:
> 
>     with open(fname, "r+b") as f:
>         # memory-map the file, size 0 means whole file
>         fmap = mmap.mmap(f.fileno(), 0)
> 
> I get an error message:
> 
> error: [Errno 22] Invalid argument
> 
> This is a minor issue - copying the file from the shared folder into
> the virtual machine's local storage makes the issue disappear.
> 
> Is this worth filing a bug report, or not?

There is already a bug report for this problem.

Kind regards,

Frank
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