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Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 16:48:38 +0530
From: "Maxin John" <maxin.john@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: regarding mprotect() implementation in 2.6.26 kernel
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Dear Michael,


> So, after a quick search, it looks as though in kernels before 2.4.19,
> the EFAULT error resulted instead of ENOMEM for this case.  Does that
> sound right to you?

 Yes, I do agree with you. After Linux Kernel version 2.4.19 , the
ENOMEM error resulted instead of EFAULT in the mprotect().

Regards,

Maxin B. John
Bangalore, India