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Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 12:59:05 -0700
From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
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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.

   Support for the flag and reference to it in the manpage should just be
removed.

-DG

David Greenman
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