On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 03:19:32PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > But diskfs/io-read.c does contain a call to mmap(), so is it just some kind of > `sanity check'? If MiG allocates a new buffer, how can we deallocated it: can > we munmap() it assuming that the buffer size is the one returned in the `len' > argument of io_read()? E.g.: > > err = io_read (file, (data_t*)&data, len, offset, size); > munmap (data, *len);
Deallocation is always the job of the caller. If MiG allocates buffers for us, and we allocate new ones, mig needs to deallocate the buffers it allocated. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de _______________________________________________ Help-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-hurd
