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From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>
Cc: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>,
	Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>,
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Subject: Re: mmap MAP_INHERIT question.
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From: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>
Subject: Re: mmap MAP_INHERIT question.
Date: Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 10:38:31AM -0700

>    MAP_INHERIT is broken and always has been.
> 
> 					-Matt

Is then a send-pr to remove the MAP_INHERIT description from mmap(2)
manpage the best we can do?  Now it says the following:

     MAP_INHERIT       Permit regions to be inherited across
                       execve(2) system calls.

Perhaps this should be changed to something along the lines of the
following?

     MAP_INHERIT       This is supposed to permit regions to be
                       inherited across execve(2) system calls,
                       but is currently broken.

-giorgos

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