Re: syscall __NR_mmap2

[Kurt Wall <kwall@kurtwerks.com>]

Quoth Richard B. Johnson:

[...]

> Yeah? So the Linux kernel now requires a specific vendor distribution?
> Since when?

I don't think this vendor specific. The mmap2() man page I have comes
from the man pages package maintained by Andries Brouwer (release 1.56).
The LSM file says you can get them at 
ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/linux-local/manpages


> So, to get the proper documentation of the Linux Kernel, I now
> need to purchase a vendor's distribution??? I think not. I think

No.

> the sys-calls need to be documented and I think that I have established
> proof of that supposition.
> 
> Script started on Tue Jul  8 10:35:05 2003
> # man mmap2
> No manual entry for mmap2
> # mmap
> # man map
> 
> MMAP(2)             Linux Programmer's Manual             MMAP(2)
> 
> NAME
>        mmap, munmap - map or unmap files or devices into memory
> 
> SYNOPSIS
>        #include <sys/types.h>
>        #include <sys/mman.h>
> 
>        caddr_t  mmap(caddr_t  addr,  size_t  len,  int prot , int
>        flags, int fd, off_t offset );
>        int munmap(caddr_t addr, size_t len);
> 
> DESCRIPTION
>        WARNING: This is a BSD man page.  Linux 0.99.11 can't  map
>        files, and can't do other things documented here.

I'd say your man pages are woefully out of date.

Kurt
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