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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] libxc portability fixes

To: Christoph Egger <Christoph.Egger@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] libxc portability fixes
From: Vincent Hanquez <vincent@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:49:49 +0200
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On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 04:32:59PM +0200, Christoph Egger wrote:
> MAP_ANONYMOUS is the proprietary thing.

which "proprietary thing" ?

> The glibc people
> should know that and should deprecate MAP_ANONYMOUS instead.

solaris has deprecated MAP_ANON as well.

> They should also document that the fd argument must be
> -1 when MAP_ANON is specified to match the Unix behaviour.

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MAP_ANONYMOUS

The mapping is not backed by any file; its contents are initial‐
ized to zero.  The fd and offset arguments are ignored; however,
some implementations require fd to be -1  if MAP_ANONYMOUS  (or
MAP_ANON)  is specified, and portable applications should ensure
this.  The use of MAP_ANONYMOUS in conjunction  with MAP_SHARED
is only supported on Linux since kernel 2.4.
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what are you missing from this ?

Cheers,
-- 
Vincent Hanquez

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