Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@nas.nasa.gov> writes:
> So the question is should a PROT_READ be silently added? I suspect not,
> since a program might really want a write-only mapping, which it can't
> get.

There are two responses to this:

* "what somebody random might thing what somebody might expect," and

* "what standards say that people can expect in portable programs."

the latter indicates that PROT_READ can -- and if necessary to support
the user supplying only PROT_WRITE must -- be added.



cgd
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