Re: mmap feature
Chris Wedgwood (cw@f00f.org)
Fri, 17 Dec 1999 19:42:09 +1300
> mem = (char *) mmap((caddr_t) 0, memsize,
> PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC,
> MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS,
> -1, (off_t) 0);
>
>
> According to the library documentation, "Linux does not support standard
> mmap system call". I cannot say if this is accurate of not. I know that
> this system call works without problem under Solaris.
Linux does not (yet) support shared anonymous maps -- it should be
failry trivial to hack the library to get around this though (mmap a
file in /tmp and unlink it instead)
-cw
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