Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 10 Sep 2001 21:49:46 -0400 | From | Benjamin LaHaise <> | Subject | Re: Different old_mmap behavior between 2.4.5 and 2.4.8 |
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On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 06:30:55PM -0700, Bao C. Ha wrote: > Is this supposed to be the correct behavior? What changes > make the newer kernels to return different pointers? We > are running on the sh4 architecture but I think these calls > come from malloc() which should be arch-independent.
The result from earlier kernels is wrong. If your code requires that the same address is returned as was specified then you need to pass in the MAP_FIXED flag.
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