In an mprotect call the flags PROT_GROWSDOWN and PROT_GROWSUP can be defined. Currently qemu returns an EINVAL as soon as one of these is found, which breaks some programs (especially mplayer). As far as I can tell it is safe to ignore these flags and just go on as if nothing happened. To be on the safe side a warning message to the user is thrown though. Is there anything wrong with ignoring these? Should they be implemented properly? Comments appreciated. Alex