/* $Id: mmap.h 6012 2002-12-16 11:19:21Z alexk $
**
** Portability wrapper around <sys/mman.h>.
**
** This header file includes <sys/mman.h> and then sets up various
** additional defines and macros to permit a uniform API across platforms
** with varying mmap implementations.
*/
#ifndef PORTABLE_MMAP_H
#define PORTABLE_MMAP_H 1
#include "config.h"
#include <sys/mman.h>
/* Make sure that the symbolic constant for the error return from mmap is
defined (some platforms don't define it). */
#ifndef MAP_FAILED
# define MAP_FAILED ((void *) -1)
#endif
/* Solaris 8 (at least) prototypes munmap, msync, and madvise as taking char *
(actually a caddr_t, which is a typedef for a char *) instead of void * as
is required by the standard. This macro adds a cast that silences compiler
warnings on Solaris 8 without adversely affecting other platforms. (ISO C
allows macro definitions of this sort; this macro is not recursive.) */
#define munmap(p, l) munmap((void *)(p), (l))
/* On some platforms, msync only takes two arguments. (ANSI C allows macro
definitions of this sort; this macro is not recursive.) */
#if HAVE_MSYNC_3_ARG
# define msync(p, l, f) msync((void *)(p), (l), (f))
#else
# define msync(p, l, f) msync((void *)(p), (l))
#endif
/* Turn calls to madvise into a no-op if that call isn't available. */
#if HAVE_MADVISE
# define madvise(p, l, o) madvise((void *)(p), (l), (o))
#else
# define madvise(p, l, o) /* empty */
#endif
/* Some platforms don't flush data written to a memory mapped region until
msync or munmap; on those platforms, we sometimes need to force an msync
so that other parts of INN will see the changed data. Some other
platforms don't see writes to a file that's memory-mapped until the
memory mappings have been flushed.
These platforms can use mmap_flush to schedule a flush to disk and
mmap_invalidate to force re-reading from disk. Note that all platforms
should still periodically call msync so that data is written out in case
of a crash. */
#if MMAP_NEEDS_MSYNC
# define mmap_flush(p, l) msync((p), (l), MS_ASYNC)
#else
# define mmap_flush(p, l) /* empty */
#endif
#if MMAP_MISSES_WRITES
# define mmap_invalidate(p, l) msync((p), (l), MS_INVALIDATE)
#else
# define mmap_invalidate(p, l) /* empty */
#endif
#endif /* PORTABLE_MMAP_H */
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