On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, Dresner, Norman A. wrote:
> Since I just copied the call to mmap() with the MAP_FIXED qualifier from the
> call to mmap() without, it actually specified a starting address of 0.
> That's my fault.
>
> But there was no error condition returned by mmap() -- errno was 0 and the
> return value wasn't MAP_FAILED. -- which should indicate that the request
> has been granted and that I can use the returned pointer. That's obviously
> not true and I think that it's NOT my fault.
OK, now I think it returned 0, because there was NO ERROR. You just got your
memory mmaped where you requested - at 0. You can now use NULL pointers for
some useful job - congratulations :-) You got what you wanted :-)
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