Hi,
I am confused on the behaviour of mmap64() on 64-bit machines.
When I run following simple program, I get SIGSEGV in memset().
But if I replace mmap64() with mmap() - it works fine.
I verified this on ppc64, em64t, amd64.
Whats happening here ? Any clues ?
Thanks,
Badari
[root@localhost ~]# ./tst junk
Segmentation fault
strace output:
...
open("junk", O_RDWR|O_CREAT, 0644) = 3
write(3, "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"...,
4096) = 4096
mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, 3, 0) =
0x2aaaaaaac000
--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
+++ killed by SIGSEGV +++
Process 26736 detached
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/mman.h>
char buf[4096];
int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
int fd;
char *start;
if (argc < 2) {
printf("Usage: %s <filename>\n", argv[0]);
exit(1);
}
fd = open(argv[1], O_RDWR | O_CREAT , 0644);
if (fd < 0) {
perror("open");
exit(1);
}
if (write(fd, buf, 4096) < 0) {
perror("write");
exit(2);
}
start = (char *)mmap64(0, 4096, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, fd, 0);
if (!start) {
perror("mmap64");
exit(2);
}
memset(start, 0, 4096);
exit(0);
}
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