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SubjectRe: Forbid deletion of memory mappings
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Clemens Kolbitsch wrote:

> the thing is that they are not. the kernel chooses to REPLACE my
> mapping.
> consider the user-space code:
> mmap(0xaaaa0000, 0x3000, MAP_FIXED, ...);
> mmap(0xaaaa1000, 0x4000, MAP_FIXED, ...);
> here, the second call to mmap will shorten the first mapping to 0x1000 bytes
> and create one big vma with size 0x5000 bytes.

Which is exactly in compliance with what POSIX says about MAP_FIXED mmaps
- see http://opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xsh/mmap.html

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