Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment:

Well, you have to understand what this code does: it tries to prevent 
non-meaningful offsets. If the offset is equal to the file size, mapping from 
that offset would not map anything in the file (and the system call may 
actually fail).

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nosy: +pitrou
resolution:  -> invalid
stage:  -> committed/rejected
status: open -> closed

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