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On 01/15/2013 02:32:55 AM, Igmar Palsenberg wrote:

> > On 14/01/2013, Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx> wrote:
> > Another: Null means allocation failure. As malloc ought to never =20
> fail
> > to find zero bytes free, it thus makes sense to return a non-null
> > pointer.
>=20
> A valid pointer also means you should be able to store something.

Says who? Fire up the mmap() man page and look at PROT_NONE.

Rob=