checking for working mmap...no

[Dave Korn]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@ On Behalf Of Corinna Vinschen
> Sent: 16 September 2004 09:47

> The mmap test is crap.  How can an application expect to be able to
> access just about every address together with MAP_FIXED?
> 
> Consequentially MapViewOfFileEx returns error 487 in these cases,
> "Attempt to access invalid address."
> 
> That's just another example of a crappy autoconf mmap test.


  I just *knew* they were asking for trouble when they introduced
AC_CRAPPY_MMAP_TEST macro in autoconf-2.53!


    cheers, 
      DaveK
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