Help wanted: configure test for busted mmap

Florian Weimer Weimer at CERT.Uni-Stuttgart.DE
Tue Jun 25 22:48:53 EST 2002


Ben Lindstrom <mouring at etoh.eviladmin.org> writes:

> Rejected already.. SysV Shm not an acceptable solution.

MAP_ANONYMOUS and even mmap() is not available on all systems.

(BTW: AFAIK, on some systems, you can mmap() from /dev/zero as a
replacement of MAP_ANON.)

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