On Wed 2006-06-28 16:47:00, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> On 6/28/06, Pavel Machek <[email protected]> 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.
Can you quote part of POSIX where it says that PROT_WRITE must imply
PROT_READ?
Pavel
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