> [...]
> anon = (char*)mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
>               MAP_ANON|MAP_SHARED, -1, 0);
> 
> that probably means it may not be that portable after all. Thanks for
> making me aware of it in any case.
> [...]

*BSD has it, and one of the Gentoo machines I have access to has it too,
and so does an Ubuntu server for work. Manpages on all machines contain
at least a small paragraph about anonymous mappings and both mention
that fd should be -1 in that case.  Looks portable enough.

-- 
        Gregor Best
--

And on the seventh day, He exited from append mode.

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