From: Brian Dessent <brian@dessent.net>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: assertion "ptr != MAP_FAILED" failed while using mmap
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 09:23:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3EFA8A17.5FB7E72F@dessent.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bddr4g$on$1@main.gmane.org>
Alex Vinokur wrote:
> char* ptr = (char*)mmap(0, sz, PROT_READ, 0, fd, 0);
>
> errno = 0;
> if (ptr != MAP_FAILED)
> {
> string str(ptr, ptr+sz);
> munmap(ptr, sz);
> }
> else
> {
> assert (ptr == MAP_FAILED);
> printf ("=== Error : %u %s ===\n", errno, strerror (errno));
> }
> The program prints:
> === Error : 0 No error ===
Of course it does, since you set errno = 0, what else could you possibly
expect? Remove that line if you want to know why mmap() fails.
Brian
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-26 5:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-25 15:17 Alex Vinokur
2003-06-25 16:51 ` Elfyn McBratney
2003-06-25 16:55 ` Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
2003-06-25 21:40 ` Elfyn McBratney
2003-06-26 5:06 ` Igor Pechtchanski
2003-06-26 6:08 ` Alex Vinokur
2003-06-26 8:31 ` Alex Vinokur
2003-06-26 9:53 ` Brian Dessent
2003-06-26 11:33 ` Alex Vinokur
2003-06-26 9:23 ` Brian Dessent [this message]
2003-06-26 19:21 ` Comparative performance : Reading contents from file into one string Alex Vinokur
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