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Re: mmap - MAP_ANON ??



On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 09:29:02PM -0500, Lance Heller wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
>    While the 'mmap(2)' manpage of my x86 2.2r2 (2.2.18 kernel) 
> system says "Linux also knows about MAP_DENYWRITE,  MAP_EXECUTABLE 
> and MAP_ANON(YMOUS)", I've not been able to get 'MAP_ANON' to work.  
> For example the mmap call below returns an EINVAL:
> [...]
> This builds cleanly using gcc version 2.95.2 and libc6 
> version 2.1.3-18.  ( gcc -Wall -g junk.c )
> 
> Any help, pointers or suggestions will be gratefully accepted.

FWIW, this code works fine on my system (x86, Debian unstable, kernel 2.4.2).

-- 
 - mdz



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