brk(2) trouble

Momchil Velikov velco@fadata.bg
Fri Nov 22 00:16:00 GMT 2002


>>>>> "Roland" == Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> writes:

    Roland> The Linux versions do not enforce a __minbrk value, so getting that
    Roland> initialized is not an issue.  I think a brk(&_start) will just happily eat
    Roland> your text and data mappings in Linux.

Yes. The problem is that ``__brk (0)'' does the same on NetBSD.  Thus,
``__minbrk'' has to be initialized to something and I have trouble
finding the right place to initialize ``__minbrk'' as well as finding
the right value.

~velco



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