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Re: how to get mmap page size?
On Jan 16 15:10, Jay Foad wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
> > mmap always allocates in 64K chunks.
>
> That doesn't seem to be true in practice. In the test below I mmap a
> 1080K file (this is a multiple of 4K but not a multiple of 64K). The
> first byte after the end of the file isn't readable.
Right. The reason is that mmap started to map memory top down at one
point to fix a problem with Windows Vista. The mechanism to align
the map always to 64K is still in Cygwin, but it currently doesn't
work for files. I'll have a look into fixing that for Cygwin 1.7.
Corinna
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