Re: mmap system call ?

Bill Hawes (whawes@star.net)
Tue, 22 Sep 1998 09:06:33 -0400

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Ravi Wijayaratne wrote:
> Does anyone know where the mmap system call is implemented in the linux
> source tree ?
>
> I found generic_file_mmap in linux/mm/file_map.c. Who calls this function
> ?
>
> Some help is greatly appreciated.

The generic_file_mmap function is called through the file_operations
vector of many of the filesystems. You'll see references like
filp->f_op->mmap() that usually resolve to generic_file_mmap.

Regards,
Bill

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