What new system calls do you want in BSD?

Peter da Silva peter at ficc.uu.net
Sat Feb 3 09:44:20 AEST 1990


In article <12071 at smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
> there is no way I can see to use mmap() portably
> even among systems on which it exists.  This puts a serious crimp
> in its potential usability.

Except that map_fd (and mmap) will accept a NULL address, allocate
the memory, and return a pointer to it.
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