Subject: MAP_ANON
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Erik_=C4ngg=E5rd?= <erik.anggard@packetfront.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/17/2003 14:58:46
Hi,
man (2) mmap says:
MAP_ANON Map anonymous memory not associated with any specific file.
The file descriptor used for creating MAP_ANON regions is
used only for naming, and may be specified as -1 if no name
is associated with the region.
But the ERRORS section of the same man page and the code in
sys/uvm/uvm_mmap.c suggest that the file descriptor must be -1 when
using MAP_ANON. Has this feature (creating a MAP_ANON region with an fd
used only for naming) been removed or has it not been implemented yet?
Or am I just confused?
Regards,
Erik