On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 12:03:23PM -0800, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > hi, > browsing through the munmap() page, it says > Munmap() will fail if: > > [EINVAL] The addr parameter was not page aligned, the len > ... > > now, i have verified that munmap works fine with any address returned > by mmap, even if not aligned, at least on a recent -STABLE. > > As i assume that passing munmap() the same address returned by mmap() > is common behaviour, should we rephrase the manpage ?
This could have slipped in from POSIX, which requires page-aligned addresses and lengths to mmap() & friends. I believe SVR4 also requires this. But yes, the manual pages should be corrected. Tim _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
