Simple question about mmap() system call

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Jun 23), Dmitry Pryanishnikov said:
>  I'm writing an utility that should examine some bytes of a large
> file and modify them - that't all. I've decided to mmap() the file:
> 
>     void *diskp;
> 
>     if ((fd=open(argv[1], O_RDWR)) == -1)
>         err(EX_NOINPUT, "Can't open %s for readind and writing", argv[1]);
> 
>     if ((diskp=mmap(NULL, 512,
>         PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, 0, fd, 0)) == MAP_FAILED)
>             err(EX_IOERR, "Can't mmap() file");

Try adding MAP_SHARED.  mmap defaults to private mappings, which means
you changes don't get synched back to disk.

I wonder how many programs would break if the mmap syscall returned an
error if neither MAP_PRIVATE or MAP_SHARED were set...

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	Dan Nelson
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