svn commit: r205536 - in head: lib/libc/sys sys/vm

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Tue Mar 23 21:27:57 UTC 2010


On Tuesday 23 March 2010 5:08:07 pm John Baldwin wrote:
> Author: jhb
> Date: Tue Mar 23 21:08:07 2010
> New Revision: 205536
> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/205536
> 
> Log:
>   Reject attempts to create a MAP_ANON mapping with a non-zero offset.
>   
>   PR:		kern/71258
>   Submitted by:	Alexander Best
>   MFC after:	2 weeks

It is probably worth thinking about whether or not we should be allowing non-
page-aligned offsets (both file and for MAP_FIXED) at all given that POSIX 
does not require them to function and other OS's do not support them.  Alan 
brought that up in one of the threads about this bug.

-- 
John Baldwin


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