Re: mmap of large amount returns invalid pointer

[Corinna Vinschen <cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 10:51:29AM -0800, Stephen Weeks wrote:
> 
> Corinna:
> > Anyway, I've checked in a patch.  It now checks if VirtualProtect
> > failed and then mmap() also fails.  Try the next developers snapshot,
> > please.
> 
> Thanks for the fix.  I tried the 2002-Mar-16 snapshot and the test
> program works correctly.  However, a slightly modified program that
> munmaps the memory in the parent process and then exits does not work
> reliably.  I have included the test case and an strace of a failed run

I'm on vacation currently so I'm not really inclined to test that
by myself.  Could you please describe what happens in the error case
in plain English?  I see that there could be a timing problem in
fork() but I'd like to read how the error looks like.

Thanks,
Corinna

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