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On Thu Feb 2 22:55:08 2006 Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
Is this the way things are supposed to work on XP?
This is a constraint of the underlying OS, yes. The old implementation of mmap used up to 1.5.18 didn't support PROT_EXEC at all, it was just fake. Since 1.5.19, PROT_EXEC mapping is now supported correctly, which means, the underlying NT functions are called requesting PAGE_EXECUTE protection.
But here's the problem. To create file mappings with PAGE_EXECUTE
protection, the file must be opened with GENERIC_EXECUTE access. This is done internally in mmap, but it fails if the file doesn't
have the execute permission set.
Whether or not this behaviour is backed by SUSv3, I'm not sure. SUSv3 states "if an implementation cannot support the combination of access types specified by prot, the call to mmap() shall fail.", so here's one situation in which the implementation can't support the combination of access types specified by prot.
OK.
I would like to modify my program to set the required permissions.
Is the mapping between Cygwin's uname()'s sysname and XP, NT, 98SE,
98, etc. available somewhere? Actually, if I could just tell if the
underlying windows is XP, that would be sufficient I think.
Thanks.
XP == NT_5.1 2k == NT_5.0 98 == 4.10 95 == 4.0 (I believe)
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