Subject: Re: MAP_ANON
To: None <ignatios@theory.cs.uni-bonn.de>
From: Ben Harris <bjh21@netbsd.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/18/2003 10:38:32
In article <20030318094002.GB6156@newton.cs.uni-bonn.de> you write:
>On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 05:18:15PM +0900, Bang Jun-Young wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 02:00:17PM +0900, Bang Jun-Young wrote:
>> > FreeBSD vm_mmap.c (originated from the old VM) has no such code, and there's
>> > no reason to not allow fd to be set to -1 for MAP_ANON case. IMO, it's a
>> > bug in our uvm_mmap.c.
[...]
>Ahem ... what do other OSes do in this area? Does Posix / SUS say anything?

POSIX doesn't have MAP_ANON at all.

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Ben Harris                                                   <bjh21@netbsd.org>
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