Re: mmap()?

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sat, 2 Jan 1999 15:38:22 +0000 (GMT)

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> On the Redhat 5.x systems I've been trying it on I only get the following:
>
> fenris@cow:~[0]$ ./foo
> mmap error! Invalid argument

You would. That program says "I want a shared copy of the zero page". The
logical semantics of that are you get to corrupt the zero page which is a
big nono

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