Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1999 19:49:05 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Randell Jesup <rjesup@wgate.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: writing to an mmap()'ed region requires read access? Message-ID: <199912090349.TAA45597@apollo.backplane.com> References: <ybuogc9i89s.fsf@jesup.eng.tvol.net.jesup.eng.tvol.net>
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: Shouldn't the mmap() return MAP_FAILED, probably with EACCES,
:instead of causing a signal 10?
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:Randell Jesup, Worldgate Communications, ex-Scala, ex-Amiga OS team ('88-94)
It's one of those cases that occurs when you have a general purpose
call where the mix of arguments is not expected to be used. I'm not
sure 'fixing' it would accomplish anything in real terms.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>
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