>From: Matt Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: mmap MAP_INHERIT question.
>Date: Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 10:38:31AM -0700
>
>> MAP_INHERIT is broken and always has been.
>>
>> -Matt
>
>Is then a send-pr to remove the MAP_INHERIT description from mmap(2)
>manpage the best we can do? Now it says the following:
>
> MAP_INHERIT Permit regions to be inherited across
> execve(2) system calls.
>
>Perhaps this should be changed to something along the lines of the
>following?
>
> MAP_INHERIT This is supposed to permit regions to be
> inherited across execve(2) system calls,
> but is currently broken.
Support for the flag and reference to it in the manpage should just be
removed.
-DG
David Greenman
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President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com
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