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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: What new system calls do you want in BSD?
Message-ID: <BWH1XUExds13@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 2 Feb 90 22:44:20 GMT
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In article <12071@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
> there is no way I can see to use mmap() portably
> even among systems on which it exists.  This puts a serious crimp
> in its potential usability.

Except that map_fd (and mmap) will accept a NULL address, allocate
the memory, and return a pointer to it.
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