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From: Alexander Best <alexbestms@math.uni-muenster.de>
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Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, "Paul B. Mahol" <onemda@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: mmap/munmap with zero length
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so. doesn't that mean that actually freebsd's mmap implementation needs to =
be
changed in order to return an error if one tries to allocate space with len=
=3D0?

alex

Bob Bishop schrieb am 2009-07-06:
> Hi,

> On 6 Jul 2009, at 13:14, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote:

> >Allocating or mapping a zero-length region is not necessarily a bug.

> POSIX says it is, IIRC.

> --
> Bob Bishop
> rb@gid.co.uk