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From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
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On 12/06/2017 08:33 AM, John Hubbard wrote:
> In that case, maybe:
> 
>      MAP_EXACT
> 
> ? ...because that's the characteristic behavior.

Is that true?  mmap still silently rounding up the length to the page 
size, I assume, so even that name is misleading.

Thanks,
Florian