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Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

>> PROT_WRITE is true, but we do MAP_PRIVATE, and if I recall
>> correctly we do not write file via mmap -- at least we do not
>> intend to.
>
> Ahh! Reading the man page helps!
>
>> Yes.  It might have been overkill that you supported writing
>> changes back, though.
>
> Sure. Something like this?

Not, really.  What I meant was to rip out the writing out
altogether, and perhaps making sure that the caller never calls
us without MAP_PRIVATE.