mmap(2) with MAP_ANON honouring offset although it shouldn't

Alan Cox alc at cs.rice.edu
Wed Nov 4 18:42:37 UTC 2009


Ed Schouten wrote:
> * Alan Cox <alc at cs.rice.edu> wrote:
>   
>> For what it's worth, I believe that Solaris does the exact opposite.
>> They provide MAP_ANONYMOUS for compatibility.  It seems like a good
>> idea for us to do the same.
>>     
>
> Something like this?
>
> Index: mman.h
> ===================================================================
> --- mman.h      (revision 198919)
> +++ mman.h      (working copy)
> @@ -82,6 +82,9 @@
>   */
>  #define        MAP_FILE         0x0000 /* map from file (default) */
>  #define        MAP_ANON         0x1000 /* allocated from memory, swap space */
> +#ifndef _KERNEL
> +#define        MAP_ANONYMOUS    MAP_ANON /* For compatibility. */
> +#endif /* !_KERNEL */
>  
>  /*
>   * Extended flags
>
>   

Yes.  If no one objects in the next day or so, then please commit this 
change.

Alan



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