Re: mmap specification - was: ... select specification

Kyle Moffett
2004-10-07T23:32:44Z

On Oct 07, 2004, at 18:46, Andries Brouwer wrote:
> The POSIX text is clear to me, and Linux is compliant.
> On the other hand, I have no idea what you try to say.

> On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 06:32:43PM -0400, Kyle Moffett wrote:
>
>>>> "References within the address range starting at pa and continuing
>>>> for len bytes to whole pages following the end of an object shall
>>>> result in delivery of a SIGBUS signal."

Reviewing this once more:

> References within the address range starting at pa and continuing for
> len bytes:
range = {pa ... pa+len};

> To whole pages following the end of an object:
range = {pa ... PAGE_ROUND_UP(pa+len)};

> shall result in delivery of a SIGBUS signal:
pa[ range[n] ]; => SIGBUS

This is clearly not what is meant

Cheers,
Kyle Moffett

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