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-rw-r--r--linux/shmem.c9
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/linux/shmem.c b/linux/shmem.c
index 73b084ddb2..6cdf108c80 100644
--- a/linux/shmem.c
+++ b/linux/shmem.c
@@ -35,16 +35,21 @@ static int shmem_type=0;
void* shmem_alloc(int size){
void* p;
-int devzero;
+static int devzero = -1;
while(1){
switch(shmem_type){
case 0: // ========= MAP_ANON|MAP_SHARED ==========
+#ifdef MAP_ANON
p=mmap(0,size,PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,MAP_ANON|MAP_SHARED,-1,0);
if(p==MAP_FAILED) break; // failed
// printf("shmem: %d bytes allocated using mmap anon (%X)\n",size,p);
return p;
+#else
+// system does not support MAP_ANON at all (e.g. solaris 2.5.1/2.6), just fail
+ break;
+#endif
case 1: // ========= MAP_SHARED + /dev/zero ==========
- if ((devzero = open("/dev/zero", O_RDWR, 0)) == -1) break;
+ if (devzero == -1 && (devzero = open("/dev/zero", O_RDWR, 0)) == -1) break;
p=mmap(0,size,PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,MAP_SHARED,devzero,0);
if(p==MAP_FAILED) break; // failed
// printf("shmem: %d bytes allocated using mmap /dev/zero (%X)\n",size,p);