Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 5 Feb 2004 22:50:24 -0500 (EST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: mmap question - it's in the man page |
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On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Bloch, Jack wrote:
> Is there any clear explanation of what the offset parameter in the mmap > system call means? Please CC me on any response.
The following command will reveal all:
$ man 2 mmap
DESCRIPTION The mmap function asks to map length bytes starting at offset offset from the file (or other object) specified by ...
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