X-Spam-Check-By:	sourceware.org
Date:	Sun, 7 Jan 2007 11:51:08 +0100
From:	Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: 1.7.0 CVS mmap failure
Message-ID:	<20070107105108.GA10586@calimero.vinschen.de>
Reply-To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
References:	<Pine DOT CYG DOT 4 DOT 58 DOT 0701041715140 DOT 3520 AT PC1163-8460-XP DOT flightsafety DOT com> <20070105095752 DOT GB28768 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <Pine DOT CYG DOT 4 DOT 58 DOT 0701050959060 DOT 2704 AT PC1163-8460-XP DOT flightsafety DOT com> <Pine DOT CYG DOT 4 DOT 58 DOT 0701051054010 DOT 280 AT PC1163-8460-XP DOT flightsafety DOT com> <Pine DOT CYG DOT 4 DOT 58 DOT 0701051144030 DOT 2880 AT PC1163-8460-XP DOT flightsafety DOT com> <20070105182234 DOT GC12776 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <Pine DOT CYG DOT 4 DOT 58 DOT 0701051237090 DOT 2880 AT PC1163-8460-XP DOT flightsafety DOT com> <20070105192302 DOT GD12776 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <Pine DOT CYG DOT 4 DOT 58 DOT 0701051513500 DOT 2880 AT PC1163-8460-XP DOT flightsafety DOT com>
Mime-Version:	1.0
In-Reply-To:	<Pine.CYG.4.58.0701051513500.2880@PC1163-8460-XP.flightsafety.com>
User-Agent:	Mutt/1.4.2.2i
Mailing-List:	contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Id:	<cygwin.cygwin.com>
List-Unsubscribe:	<mailto:cygwin-unsubscribe-archive-cygwin=delorie DOT com AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Subscribe:	<mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive:	<http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post:	<mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help:	<mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
Sender:	cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To:	mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com

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

-- 
Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Project Co-Leader          cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Red Hat

--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/

- Raw text -