> On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 10:19:42AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 11:47:28AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > >Do you mean something like this: > > > > > > If addr is given, check if it's 64K aligned. If not, align and > > > raise the memory requirement accordingly. Call MapViewOfFileEx > > > with the aligned address. If it works, return the addr given as > > > parameter, otherwise return MapViewOfFileEx(NULL). > > > > How about, instead, just use the address and if it fails and is not > > MAP_FIXED, use MapViewOfFileEx without the address? > > Yep, that's the simple approach. I dropped this suggestion from my > original reply since it requires addr to be on a 64k boundary. > Unfortunately I have no idea if the chance to succeed might be better > or worse than using the more complex approach.
Just out of curiosity would a patch to support mmap on 4k boundaries be useful/accepted? Chris -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
