mmap breakage?

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20040402191254.GK26131 at elvis.mu.org>, Alfred Perlstein writes:
>* Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at phk.freebsd.dk> [040402 10:40] wrote:
>> In message <20040402160959.GJ26131 at elvis.mu.org>, Alfred Perlstein writes:
>> >I noticed that mplayer seems to want to open /dev/zero with RDONLY
>> >but then tries to mmap it PROT_READ+PROT_WRITE and gets rejected.
>> 
>> Sounds like missing MAP_PRIVATE ?
>
>Nope, private is set.  It's just that the file is opened RDONLY,
>but PROT has PROT_WRITE in it.

That should be OK with MAP_PRIVATE as far as I interpret POLA.

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