> The HPUX man page for mmap documents its failure return value as "-1",
> so I hacked around this with
>
> #ifndef MAP_FAILED
> #define MAP_FAILED ((void *) (-1))
> #endif
>
> whereupon it built and passed the simple self-test you suggested.
> However, I think it's pretty foolish to depend on mmap for such
> little reason as this code does. I suggest ripping out the mmap
> usage and just reading the file with good old read(2).
Agreed. Let read() use mmap() internally if it wants to.
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