bug? mmap doesn't like 0-length files

[Cameron Simpson]

On 23Nov2010 13:59, I wrote:
| On 22Nov2010 20:33, Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> wrote:
| |  mmap.mmap (f.fileno(), 0, prot=mmap.PROT_READ)
| | error: [Errno 22] Invalid argument
[...]
| | I don't see anything in linux man-page about the underlying C mmap function 
| | not accepting 0-length files.

It's worth noting that any time you get an errno error/exception then it
is almost certainly the underlying OS interface that has rejected your
request, not the python library.

Cheers,
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