ocie@paracel.com wrote:
> 
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >
> > Would people tell me what platforms do NOT support the MAP_ANON flag to
> > the mmap() system call?  You should find it in the mmap() manual page.
> 
> Doesn't seem to appear in Linux (2.0.30 kernel).  As another poster
> commented, /dev/zero can be mapped for anonymous memory.

although 'man mmap' does not say it, it is present in sys/mman.h on 
linux (at least 2.0.33)

it is NOT present in Solaris x86 v.2.6

it is NOT present in SINIX v5.42 (UNIX(r) System V Release 4.1)

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Hannu Krosing

Tue, 12 May 1998 13:19:26 +0300
Hannu Krosing <hannu@trust.ee>
Re: [HACKERS] mmap and MAP_ANON
Hannu Krosing wrote:
> 
> ocie@paracel.com wrote:
> > 
> > Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > >
> > > Would people tell me what platforms do NOT support the MAP_ANON flag to
> > > the mmap() system call?  You should find it in the mmap() manual page.
> > 
> > Doesn't seem to appear in Linux (2.0.30 kernel).  As another poster
> > commented, /dev/zero can be mapped for anonymous memory.
> 
> although 'man mmap' does not say it, it is present in sys/mman.h on 
> linux (at least 2.0.33)

It appears there, but using it causes mmap to return EINVAL.

Ocie

Tue, 12 May 1998 12:40:47 -0700 (PDT)
ocie@paracel.com
Re: [HACKERS] mmap and MAP_ANON