Another common use of mmap is allocating blocks of memory, e.g. by mapping /dev/zero in private mode. A couple of convenience functions to use mmap can be found

Another common use of mmap is allocating blocks of memory, e.g. by mapping /dev/zero in private mode. A couple of convenience functions to use mmap can be found here: https://github.com/ndevilla/mmapi https://github.com/ndevilla/mmapi