[resend] Allow use of MAP_TRYFIXED for better mmap()

Jon Bright jon at siliconcircus.com
Thu Aug 28 12:28:24 CDT 2003


Dimitrie O. Paun wrote:

> On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Jon Bright wrote:
> 
> 
>>Except that if you build it on a machine which knows about MAP_TRYFIXED 
>>at all, the resulting binary's not likely to run on older machines...
> 
> 
> No, if the check is done at runtime, there's no problem. Where do you see any?

Having the necessary headers to compile with the 
macros/functions/whatever for MAP_TRYFIXED implies an up-to-date libc. 
An up-to-date libc implies the resulting binary will not run on older 
machines.

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Jon Bright
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