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From: Gennady Sorokopud <gena@NetVision.net.il>
To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Subject: Re: mmap() with offset
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Hi!
On 13-Dec-96 Bruce Evans wrote:
>mmap() currently requires the offset to be a multiple of PAGE_SIZE (4096).
>This is a bug according to the man page.  Similar restrictions on other
>mmap args were removed in February 1996.  The args get rounded up or down
>to a multiple of PAGE_SIZE as appropriate.
Thanks , i just figured this out by myself, when looking at vm_mmap.c .
Also i'm not sure that this can be defined as "bug", since the same restriction
exists on Solaris, and even documented in the man page.

>Bruce

Best regards.
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