unable to resize mmap object
Fabiano Sidler
fabianosidler at gmail.com
Sun Apr 30 08:02:17 EDT 2006
Hi folks!
I created an mmap object like so:
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from mmap import mmap,MAP_ANONYMOUS,MAP_PRIVATE
fl = file('/dev/zero','rw')
mm = mmap(fl.fileno(), 1, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS)
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Now, when I try to resize mm to 10 byte
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mm.resize(10)
--- snap ---
I get an EnvironmentError:[Errno 22] Invalid argument.
How can I implement a resizeable anonymous memory mapping?
Thanks for your reply!
F. Sidler
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