> Package: libc6 > Version: 2.2.5-3 > Severity: normal > > Looks like an attempt to mmap an area that is too big for the processes > address space[1] causes mmap to return EINVAL instead of ENOMEM. > According to the docs of the LSB test suite, it should be ENOMEM: > > If _POSIX_SHARED_MEMORY_OBJECTS is defined or the implementa- > tion supports the mmap() function as defined in System > Interfaces and Headers, Issue 5 and the implementation > supports MAP_FIXED: > A call to mmap() when MAP_FIXED is specified and the range > [addr,addr+len] exceeds that allowed for the address space of > a process shall return MAP_FAILED and set errno to ENOMEM. > > [1] The test program does this by mmapping half of the processes address > space, and then mmaping 1 page less than the number of pages in the > address space, which of course fails..
Please show us the test case. BTW, this bug is a bit obsolete, so I think it should be checked with the latest glibc 2.3.2.ds1-13. If you don't have any interests in this bug, please let me know to close it. Regards, -- gotom
