Re: shared mmapping of /dev/zero

David S. Miller (davem@caip.rutgers.edu)
Sun, 5 May 1996 09:46:53 -0400

Date: Sat, 4 May 1996 17:01:00 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Ronald Wahl <Ronald.Wahl@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>

I want to do a shared mmap of /dev/zero ind read/write mode but I
get only EINVAL. I used PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE (yes /dev/zero is
opened read/write). I use linux-1.3.97 and libc-5.3.12.

Try MAP_ANONYMOUS, it's the same thing.

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@caip.rutgers.edu