Bug 621353

Summary: grep --mmap doesn't work
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Tobias Mueller <fedora-bugs>
Component: grepAssignee: Jaroslav Škarvada <jskarvad>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 13CC: jskarvad, lkundrak
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Description Tobias Mueller 2010-08-04 19:59:20 UTC 
Description of problem:
According to the man page, grep --mmap is supposed to work. And it does indeed on my Ubuntu installation.

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How reproducible:
grep --mmap $USER /etc/passwd

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual results:
$ grep --mmap $USER /etc/passwd
Usage: grep [OPTION]... PATTERN [FILE]...
Try `grep --help' for more information.
$

Expected results:
$USER

Additional info:
Comment 1 Jaroslav Škarvada 2010-08-05 07:06:46 UTC 
Thanks for report. Please note that the --mmap option is deprecated and should be ignored. This behaviour was implemented in rawhide and will be presented in F14. Upstream bugzilla: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?29614

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 583895 ***