[issue12556] Disable size checks in mmap.mmap()

[Ross Lagerwall]

Ross Lagerwall <rosslagerwall at gmail.com> added the comment:

> That's what I thought, it's really uncommon: in that case, I'm
> reluctant to making such a change, for the reason explained above.
> Ross, Victor?

Even if Linux did accept a a length of 0 (which it doesn't since 2.6.12), what would be the point? Wouldn't you be mapping *nothing*?

Yeah, I'm against this change.

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