Re: don't let mmap allocate down to zero

[Kyle Moffett]

On Jan 26, 2005, at 11:38, linux-os wrote:
> Does this mean that we can't mmap the screen regen buffer at
> 0x000b8000 anymore?

I believe the point of this is to ensure that *non*-MAP_FIXED
mmap calls won't use 0, IOW, it keeps things from accidentally
being mapped at 0 when the user didn't intend to, like shared
libs and such.

Cheers,
Kyle Moffett

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