Re: [linuxsh-dev] Different old_mmap behavior in 2.4.5 and 2.4.8

[David W. <dw...@in...>]

ba...@se... said:
> One of our applications broke due to different behaviors of the system
> call old_mmap. 

You didn't specify MAP_FIXED. If the application relied on getting back the 
address it asked for then it's broken, as you discovered.

>  Is this supposed to be the correct area?  What changes make the newer
> kernels to return different pointers? 

Looking at the numbers, I'd be inclined to guess that it's moved due to
cache aliasing. And hence that it's not very likely to get 'fixed'. 

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dwmw2