Re: make PROT_WRITE imply PROT_READ

[Ulrich Drepper]

On 6/28/06, Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> wrote:
> mmap() behaviour always was platform-specific, and it happens to be
> quite strange on i386. So what.

Nonsense.  The mmap semantics is specified in POSIX.  If something
doesn't work as requested it is a bug.  For the specific issue hurting
x86 and likely others the standard explicitly allows requiring
PROT_READ to be used or implicitly adding it.  Don't confuse people
with wrong statement like yours.
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