On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 1:49 AM, Gan Shun <[email protected]> wrote:

> Yeah omg. Is it cause it's possible to map page 0 therefore returning 0 is
> valid?
>

Sounds legit.

Btw, there is also this: https://linux.die.net/man/3/explain_mmap_or_die

Something something...air speed of unladen African swallows...something
something..."I don't know...AAHHHHH!!"

On Tue, Nov 1, 2016, 21:48 barret rhoden <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On 2016-11-02 at  4:33 ron minnich wrote:
>> > https://linux.die.net/man/3/explain_mmap
>> >
>> > "our kernel only returns error numbers so we wrote an entire new
>> library to
>> > tell you what the kernel should have told you in the first place."
>> >
>> > the mind reels.
>> >
>>
>> damn.  even worse, from the example on that page:
>>
>>     void *result = mmap(data, data_size, prot, flags, fildes, offset);
>>     if (!result)
>>     {
>>         fprintf(stderr, "%s\n", explain_mmap(data, data_size, prot,
>> flags, fildes, offset));
>>         exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
>>     }
>>
>> checking !result is wrong.  mmap returns MAP_FAILED (basically -1) on
>> error, not 0.  we had a brutal bug a long time ago that got that wrong.
>>
>> barret
>>
>>
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