Subject: Re: standards/33527: mlock/mlockall documentation and code difference
To: None <standards-manager@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,>
From: Matthias Drochner <M.Drochner@fz-juelich.de>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 05/22/2006 18:00:04
The following reply was made to PR standards/33527; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Matthias Drochner <M.Drochner@fz-juelich.de>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: standards-manager@NetBSD.org, gnats-admin@NetBSD.org,
netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: standards/33527: mlock/mlockall documentation and code difference
Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 19:56:10 +0200
simonb@NetBSD.org said:
> SUSv3 makes no mention of alignment restrictions on the
> arguments
It says:
"The implementation may require that addr be a multiple of {PAGESIZE}."
There should be at least a note saying that portable code should
use aligned addresses.
best regards
Matthias