From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Dec 8 19:49:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [216.240.41.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04E7715316 for ; Wed, 8 Dec 1999 19:49:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id TAA45597; Wed, 8 Dec 1999 19:49:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1999 19:49:05 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <199912090349.TAA45597@apollo.backplane.com> To: Randell Jesup Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: writing to an mmap()'ed region requires read access? References: Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG : : Shouldn't the mmap() return MAP_FAILED, probably with EACCES, :instead of causing a signal 10? : :-- :Randell Jesup, Worldgate Communications, ex-Scala, ex-Amiga OS team ('88-94) It's one of those cases that occurs when you have a general purpose call where the mix of arguments is not expected to be used. I'm not sure 'fixing' it would accomplish anything in real terms. -Matt Matthew Dillon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message