Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 12:59:05 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>, Bernd Walter <ticso@mail.cicely.de>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mmap MAP_INHERIT question. Message-ID: <20010823125905.L63814@nexus.root.com> In-Reply-To: <20010823223315.B2991@hades.hell.gr>; from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr on Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 10:33:16PM %2B0300 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0108231012330.48732-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> <200108231738.f7NHcVo87785@earth.backplane.com> <20010823223315.B2991@hades.hell.gr>
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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 Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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