Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 12:36:47 -0800 (PST) From: Steven Grady <grady@digitaldeck..com> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: docs/34005: mmap man page description of ENOMEM is ambiguous Message-ID: <200201172036.g0HKalX74823@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 34005
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: mmap man page description of ENOMEM is ambiguous
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
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>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Thu Jan 17 12:40:01 PST 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Steven Grady
>Release: 4.3
>Organization:
DigitalDeck, Inc.
>Environment:
FreeBSD inigo.digitaldeck.com 4.3-RELEASE-p20 FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE-p20 #0: Wed Nov 7 21:15:47 PST 2001 mudie@inigo.digitaldeck.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/INIGO i386
>Description:
The man page says under ENOMEM:
MAP_FIXED was specified and the addr parameter wasn't available, or the system has reached the per-process mmap limit specified in the vm.max_proc_mmap sysctl.
MAP_ANON was specified and insufficient memory was available.
This _could_ be taken to mean that the max_proc_mmap limit is only applicable when MAP_FIXED is specified.
It took me a while to track down an ElectricFence failure because I misinterpreted this line.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
Change to something like the following.
MAP_FIXED was specified and the addr parameter wasn't available.
The system has reached the per-process mmap limit specified in the vm.max_proc_mmap sysctl.
MAP_ANON was specified and insufficient memory was available.
(I.e. separate the max_proc_mmap line from the MAX_FIXED line, to make it clear that they are independent.)
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