Extending /proc/*/maps

[Ryan Johnson]

On 11/05/2011 3:31 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On May 11 13:46, Ryan Johnson wrote:
>> Also, the cygheap isn't a normal windows heap, is it? I thought it
>> was essentially a statically-allocated array (.cygheap) that gets
>> managed as a heap. I guess since it's part of cygwin1.dll we already
>> do sort of report it...
> The cygheap is the last section in the DLL and gets allocated by the
> Windows loader.  The memory management is entirely in Cygwin (cygheap.cc).
> Cygwin can raise the size of the cygheap, but only if the blocks right
> after the existing cygheap are not already allocated.
Would it make sense to give that section, and the one(s) which 
immediately follow it, the tag "[cygheap]" rather than 
"/usr/bin/cygwin1.dll" and nothing? It would require struct pefile to 
identify the section, plus some trickery in format_process_maps to treat 
the cygwin dll and adjacent succeeding allocation(s) specially.

Ryan