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| author | Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> | 2005-03-03 11:22:44 (GMT) |
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| committer | Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> | 2005-03-03 11:22:44 (GMT) |
| commit | 7fe60c0a0ae2fe4586491867c902bb13df403285 (patch) | |
| tree | f014cc1f0b4dfb19588dc5144ff343f11e48c352 /Doc/lib | |
| parent | df37c8c1ad51b6f8527e2cd398788e49cd686654 (diff) | |
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Patches #749830, #1144555: allow UNIX mmap size to default to current
file size.
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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/lib/libmmap.tex | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libmmap.tex b/Doc/lib/libmmap.tex index d0fbf88..0d7baa1 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libmmap.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libmmap.tex @@ -62,8 +62,10 @@ the underlying file. prot\optional{, access}}}} \strong{(\UNIX{} version)} Maps \var{length} bytes from the file specified by the file descriptor \var{fileno}, and returns a mmap - object. - + object. If \var{length} is \code{0}, the maximum length of the map + will be the current size of the file when \function{mmap(} is + called. + \var{flags} specifies the nature of the mapping. \constant{MAP_PRIVATE} creates a private copy-on-write mapping, so changes to the contents of the mmap object will be private to this |