In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Ronald G Minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, FengYue wrote:
>
> > It seems that mmap on /dev/zero is more portable.
>
> no really, It won't work at all correctly on linux, and on Tru64 it does
> the totally wrong thing, but the (fd = -1, MAP_ANONYMOUS) does the right
> thing on tru64.
>
> It's disappointing that this works so unportably :-(
The other oddity about Tru64 is that a 0-length mmap of a 0-length
file fails.
John
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