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To: "Ron G. Minnich" <rminnich@Sarnoff.COM>
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Subject: Re: freebsd mmap: does the offset have to be blocksize-aligned 
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 17:22:39 -0700
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>any block-aligned restrictions like this in freebsd mmap? I can't think of 
>having seen it, but you here know better than me. I'm curious. 

   In the MAP_FIXED case, the mapping address, after adjusting it for the
requested file offset, must be page-aligned. This is the only alignment
restriction.

-DG

David Greenman
Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project

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