Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 8 Jul 2003 15:05:46 +0100 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: syscall __NR_mmap2 |
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Richard B. Johnson wrote: > > The offset argument to mmap2 is divided by PAGE_SIZE. > > That is the whole point of mmap2 :) > > Okay. Do you know where that's documented? Nothing in linux/Documentation, > and nothing in any headers. Do you have to read the code to find out? > > So, the address is now the offset in PAGES, not bytes. Seems logical, > but there is no clue in any documentation.
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$ man mmap2 [...] The function mmap2 operates in exactly the same way as mmap(2), except that the final argument specifies the offset into the file in units of the system page size (instead of bytes).
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