Re: mmap question - it's in the man page

[Rik van Riel]

On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Bloch, Jack wrote:

> Is there any clear explanation of what the offset parameter in the mmap
> system call means? Please CC me on any response.

The following command will reveal all:

$ man 2 mmap

DESCRIPTION
       The mmap function asks to map  length  bytes  starting  at
       offset offset from the file (or other object) specified by
       ...

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