I knew it was not documented for a reason but why is it ? Just curious
... but it s ok if we drop this change ...
On Tue, 21 Aug 2018 at 16:38, Mark Kettenis <mark.kette...@xs4all.nl> wrote:
>
> > From: "Todd C. Miller" <todd.mil...@sudo.ws>
> > Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2018 09:19:05 -0600
> >
> > On Tue, 21 Aug 2018 08:57:06 +0100, David CARLIER wrote:
> >
> > > For portability sake and to make it more "visible" I changed the
> > > __MAP_NOREPLACE to MAP_EXCL, documented it in the man page and also
> > > changed the errno to EEXIST instead (I thought it would reflect
> > > better the error in case the addressed mapped already exists but
> > > can be changed back in case ...).
> >
> > Does anyone other than FreeBSD define MAP_EXCL? A quick google
> > search didn't turn up any other systems with it.
>
> The symbol starts with a double underscore for a reason. We really
> didn't want this to be used outside of the very specific code in base
> that needs this.
