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Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org,
	Alexander Best <alexbestms@math.uni-muenster.de>,
	"Paul B. Mahol" <onemda@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: mmap/munmap with zero length
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Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk> writes:
> Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav <des@des.no> writes:
> > Allocating or mapping a zero-length region is not necessarily a bug.
> POSIX says it is, IIRC.

For mmap(), yes; for malloc(), no.

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