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authored <ed@FreeBSD.org>2009-11-06 07:17:31 +0000
committered <ed@FreeBSD.org>2009-11-06 07:17:31 +0000
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Add MAP_ANONYMOUS.
Many operating systems also provide MAP_ANONYMOUS. It's not hard to support this ourselves, we'd better add it to make it more likely for applications to work out of the box. Reviewed by: alc (mman.h)
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-rw-r--r--lib/libc/sys/mmap.26
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/mmap.2 b/lib/libc/sys/mmap.2
index e632748..4849973 100644
--- a/lib/libc/sys/mmap.2
+++ b/lib/libc/sys/mmap.2
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
.\" @(#)mmap.2 8.4 (Berkeley) 5/11/95
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd July 26, 2009
+.Dd November 6, 2009
.Dt MMAP 2
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -108,6 +108,10 @@ The
argument is ignored.
.\".It Dv MAP_FILE
.\"Mapped from a regular file or character-special device memory.
+.It Dv MAP_ANONYMOUS
+This flag is identical to
+.Dv MAP_ANON
+and is provided for compatibility.
.It Dv MAP_FIXED
Do not permit the system to select a different address than the one
specified.
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