From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 23 13:30:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCD4D37B40A for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 13:30:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-b075.otenet.gr [195.167.121.203]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.11.5/8.11.5) with ESMTP id f7NKTxT13133; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 23:30:00 +0300 (EEST) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f7NKUAU04265; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 23:30:10 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 23:30:00 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: David Greenman Cc: Matt Dillon , Julian Elischer , Alfred Perlstein , Bernd Walter , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mmap MAP_INHERIT question. Message-ID: <20010823233000.A4248@hades.hell.gr> References: <200108231738.f7NHcVo87785@earth.backplane.com> <20010823223315.B2991@hades.hell.gr> <20010823125905.L63814@nexus.root.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010823125905.L63814@nexus.root.com>; from dg@root.com on Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 12:59:05PM -0700 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3A 75 52 EB F1 58 56 0D - C5 B8 21 B6 1B 5E 4A C2 X-URL: http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~keramida/index.html Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG From: David Greenman Subject: Re: mmap MAP_INHERIT question. Date: Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 12:59:05PM -0700 > >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. Me stands back and patiently awaits for a friendly nearby committer to do the dirty work. -giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message