Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Really good idea to allow mmap(0, FIXED)? | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Thu, 05 Oct 2006 22:58:00 +0100 |
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Ar Iau, 2006-10-05 am 20:59 +0200, ysgrifennodd Michael Buesch: > Is is really a good idea to allow processes to remap something > to address 0?
It is very useful indeed. Consider for example dosemu.
> Besides that, I currently don't see a valid reason to mmap address 0. > > Comments?
User zero is not neccessarily mapped at kernel zero so your argument isn't portable either.
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