From: unrza3@cd4680fs.rrze.uni-erlangen.de (Markus Kuhn)
Subject: mmap() not working with SLS 1.02?
Date: Fri, 14 May 1993 22:28:57 +0200
Reply-To: mskuhn@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de
I have encountered a problem with the mmap() function while trying to
port two programs that run fine under SunOS 4.1.* to Linux 0.99pl9. After the
line
start = mmap(NULL, length, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, fileno(f), 0);
start has the value (caddr_t) -1 and perror() prints 'Out of memory',
even if I have many megabytes free and length has only a value of 30000.
The problem appears with files from both local file systems and nfs.
I never managed to get a succesful memory mapped file under Linux.
Any ideas?
Markus
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From: eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil (Eric Youngdale)
Subject: Re: mmap() not working with SLS 1.02?
Date: Wed, 19 May 1993 14:17:25 GMT
In article <1t0ve9E116@uni-erlangen.de>
mskuhn@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de writes:
>I have encountered a problem with the mmap() function while trying to
>port two programs that run fine under SunOS 4.1.* to Linux 0.99pl9. After the
>line
>
> start = mmap(NULL, length, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, fileno(f), 0);
>
>start has the value (caddr_t) -1 and perror() prints 'Out of memory',
>even if I have many megabytes free and length has only a value of 30000.
>The problem appears with files from both local file systems and nfs.
>I never managed to get a succesful memory mapped file under Linux.
>
>Any ideas?
The mmap() function is crippled in 0.99pl9, so it will not work as you
are attempting to use it. Currently only /dev/mem and /dev/zero can be mmaped.
I have sent Linus patches that add a lot of the missing mmap() functionality,
and I hope that they will appear in the next kernel release. Even with my
patches, changes to a mmaped image are not written back to the disk file,
however.
-Eric
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