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Subject: Re: how to get mmap page size?
From: Jay Foad <jay DOT foad AT gmail DOT com>
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Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> Right.  The reason is that mmap started to map memory top down at one
> point to fix a problem with Windows Vista.  The mechanism to align
> the map always to 64K is still in Cygwin, but it currently doesn't
> work for files.  I'll have a look into fixing that for Cygwin 1.7.

OK, thanks. In the mean time I guess I'll just use a hard coded value
of 4K for the page size in my application.

Thanks,
Jay.

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