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Re: 1.7.0 CVS mmap failure


On Jan  5 15:15, Brian Ford wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 
> > "overmap"?  -v please?
> 
> Posix symantics: mmap fixed region x, mmap fixed region y which is a
> subregion of x where y replaces x's mapping.

AFAIK that doesn't work on Windows.  But, somebody has to test it(tm).
This would be exactly the situation in which we could utilize the
AT_EXTENDABLE_FILE flag, if it only would work with MAP_PRIVATE :(
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2004-03/msg00033.html


Corinna

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