mmap(2) with MAP_ANON honouring offset although it shouldn't

Ed Schouten ed at 80386.nl
Tue Nov 3 17:24:54 UTC 2009


Hi Alan,

* Alan Cox <alan.l.cox at gmail.com> wrote:
> The standards for mmap(2) actually disallow values of "off" that are not a
> multiple of the page size.
> 
> See http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/functions/mmap.html for
> the following:
> <snip>

Just by accident I saw they changed that behaviour in a newer version of
the spec:

	http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/mmap.html

-- 
 Ed Schouten <ed at 80386.nl>
 WWW: http://80386.nl/
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