Bus error opening and mmap'ing a file

Question

I want to create a file and map it into memory. I think that my code will work but when I run it I'm getting a "bus error". I searched google but I'm not sure how to fix the problem. Here is my code:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/mman.h>
#include <string.h>

int main(void)
{
    int file_fd,page_size;
    char buffer[10]="perfect";
    char *map;

    file_fd=open("/tmp/test.txt",O_RDWR | O_CREAT | O_TRUNC ,(mode_t)0600);

    if(file_fd == -1)
    {
        perror("open");
        return 2;
    }

    page_size = getpagesize();

    map = mmap(0,page_size,PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,MAP_SHARED,file_fd,page_size);

    if(map == MAP_FAILED)
    {
        perror("mmap");
        return 3;
    }

    strcpy(map, buffer);

    munmap(map, page_size);
    close(file_fd);
    return 0;
}

Answer 1

You are creating a new zero sized file, you can't extend the file size with mmap. You'll get a bus error when you try to write outside the content of the file.

Use e.g. fallocate() on the file descriptor to allocate room in the file.

Note that you're also passing the page_size as the offset to mmap, which doesn't seem to make much sense in your example, you'll have to first extend the file to pagesize + strlen(buffer) + 1 if you want to write buf at that location. More likely you want to start at the beginning of the file, so pass 0 as the last argument to mmap.