Subject: Re: more mmap options
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
List: tech-kern
Date: 04/21/2002 18:09:54
>> There is a MAP_AUTOGROW which will increase the file size if the
>> mapping goes beyond the end of the file and if pages mapped beyond
>> the end of the file are touched.
> how is (in irix) defined maximum growth - as space in
> pagetable/address space must be reserved..
"if the mapping goes beyond the end of the file". Sounds to me as
though the maximum growth is the size of the requested mapping.
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