Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 20:05:01 +0300 (EEST) From: Dmitry Pryanishnikov <dmitry@atlantis.dp.ua> To: Konstantin Belousov <konstantin.belousov@zoral.com.ua> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Simple question about mmap() system call Message-ID: <20060623195551.A43353@atlantis.atlantis.dp.ua> In-Reply-To: <20060623150227.GK5115@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> References: <20060623173723.H39481@atlantis.atlantis.dp.ua> <20060623150227.GK5115@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>
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Hello!
On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
>> if ((diskp=mmap(NULL, 512,
>> PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, 0, fd, 0)) == MAP_FAILED)
>> err(EX_IOERR, "Can't mmap() file");
>>
>> shows actual first byte of my file. But modification doesn't get written
>> back to the disk, file contents are unchanged after execution of my code.
>> I'm sure I'm overlooking something very basic and stupid, but can't find
>> what exactly.
> You forgot MAP_SHARED.
Thank you! Yes, that's it. I would say that it's description
MAP_SHARED Modifications are shared.
is rather terse and doesn't explicitly says that w/o it data will not be
stored back to the mmapped object. One can only deduce this behaviour,
and deduction sometimes fails at the end of working day ;)
Sincerely, Dmitry
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