[PATCH][RFC] Allow explicit shrinking of arena heaps using an environment variable

Florian Weimer fweimer@redhat.com
Fri Aug 3 08:37:00 GMT 2012


On 08/02/2012 03:01 AM, Rich Felker wrote:

> That's silly. It's a fundamental part of how commit accounting works.

I think we're actually in agreement.  I'm just reporting my experience 
trying to colvince folks to rely on PROT_NONE.  I'm not disputing that 
PROT_NONE doesn't work with current kernels.

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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security Team



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