| Summary: | mmap man page states that non-page aligned offsets don't work. they do. | ||
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| Product: | Base System | Reporter: | nick <nick> |
| Component: | kern | Assignee: | freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs> |
| Status: | Closed FIXED | ||
| Severity: | Affects Only Me | ||
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Version: | 4.0-RELEASE | ||
| Hardware: | Any | ||
| OS: | Any | ||
State Changed From-To: open->closed Fixed, thanks! |
the mmap man page states in the BUGS section: We currently can only deal with page aligned file offsets. This doesn't appear to be true as mmap() will map /etc/motd without error at offset 11. I assume that the documentation is out of date. Fix: Ammend man page to remove this from the bugs. (It doesn't appear to be just regular files, as /dev/zero also works) Or if not all devices support it, state this in the BUGS section. How-To-Repeat: #include <unistd.h> #include <sys/mman.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/stat.h> #include <fcntl.h> #include <errno.h> int main () { int motd = open ("/etc/motd", O_RDONLY); void *mapped; if (motd < 0) { perror ("Failed to open /etc/motd"); return 1; } mapped = mmap(NULL, 1024, PROT_EXEC | PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE , MAP_PRIVATE, motd, 11); printf ("mapped = %p errno = %d\n", mapped, errno); return 0; } gives mapped = 0x280f000b errno = 0 on FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE, 4.0-RELEASE and 4.1-STABLE, all x86 (all I have access to) which isn't what the man page says should happen.