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From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
To: "Bao C. Ha" <baoha@sensoria.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Different old_mmap behavior between  2.4.5 and 2.4.8
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 21:49:46 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010910214946.A16760@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <028701c13a61$67bf17e0$456c020a@SENSORIA>
In-Reply-To: <028701c13a61$67bf17e0$456c020a@SENSORIA>; from baoha@sensoria.com on Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 06:30:55PM -0700

On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 06:30:55PM -0700, Bao C. Ha wrote:
> Is this supposed to be the correct behavior?  What changes 
> make the newer kernels to return different pointers?  We
> are running on the sh4 architecture but I think these calls
> come from malloc() which should be arch-independent.

The result from earlier kernels is wrong.  If your code 
requires that the same address is returned as was specified 
then you need to pass in the MAP_FIXED flag.

		-ben

  reply	other threads:[~2001-09-11  1:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-09-11  1:30 Different old_mmap behavior between 2.4.5 and 2.4.8 Bao C. Ha
2001-09-11  1:49 ` Benjamin LaHaise [this message]
2001-09-11 18:31   ` Bao C. Ha

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