Carnegie Mellon
User-Level Memory Mapping
void *mmap(void *start, int len,
int prot, int flags, int fd, int offset)
Map len bytes starting at offset offset of the file specified by file description fd, preferably at address start
start: may be 0 for pick an address
prot: PROT_READ, PROT_WRITE,
flags: MAP_ANON, MAP_PRIVATE, MAP_SHARED,
Return a pointer to start of mapped area (may not be start)
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Carnegie Mellon
User-Level Memory Mapping
void *mmap(void *start, int len,
int prot, int flags, int fd, int offset)
len bytes offset
(bytes)
len bytes start
(or address chosen by kernel)
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0
Disk file specified by file descriptor fd
Process virtual memory
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