On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 14:00, Thomas 'Dent' Mirlacher wrote:
> and the checks in various places are really strange. - well some
> places check for:
> o != NULL
> o > -1024UL
"Not an error". Its relying as some other bits of code do actually that
the top mappable user address is never in the top 1K of the address
space
> is it possible to have 0 as a valid address? - if not, this should
> be the return on errors.
SuS explicitly says that 0 is not a valid mmap return address.
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