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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!portal!chris From: chris@shell.portal.com (Chris - Ding) Subject: MMAP() doesn't work for me ? Message-ID: <C7xM5G.3sE@unix.portal.com> Keywords: mmap, 386bsd Sender: news@unix.portal.com Nntp-Posting-Host: jobe Organization: Portal Communications Company Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1993 07:29:40 GMT Lines: 53 The configuration is 386bsd 0.1 + 0.2.3. The command sequence is: #su #ls -l /dev/mem crw-r----- 1 root 2, 0 May 31 11:58 /dev/mem #a.out test ( mmap ) : Invalid argument Can anyone tell me what's wrong with the code ? Or there is a bug in the kernal ? Thanks. C. Ding chris@shell.portal.com ------ Source code for a.out -------- #include <sys/file.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <ctype.h> #include <sys/mman.h> main() { caddr_t addr; int prot = PROT_WRITE; static int fd; int i; if ( ( fd = open ( "/dev/mem", O_RDWR ) ) == -1 ) { perror ( "test" ); exit( 1 ); } addr = mmap ( (caddr_t) 0, len, prot, MAP_FILE, fd, (off_t)0x0 ); if ( addr == ( caddr_t ) -1 ) { perror ( "test (mmap) " ); exit ( 1 ); } : : : : } -- Chris Ding chris@portal.shell.com