Question

A linux kernel newbie question.

the man pages of mmap state that ".. otherwise, it shall return a value of MAP_FAILED and set errno to indicate the error... "

I have looked through the kernel code for mmap under /usr/src/linux/mm/mmap.c but I could not find a place where mmap returns MAP_FAILED.

Can anyone point me as to where can I find the same.

Thanks

Answer 1

You won’t find MAP_FAILED in the kernel; instead, it’s defined in userspace and used by mmap, the userspace function that wraps the system call. See the glibc source for mmap.