Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 27 May 2002 14:39:44 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Memory management in Kernel 2.4.x |
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Benjamin LaHaise wrote: > On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 02:34:00PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > >>Doesn't help. exec() should fail. > > > Only if you're out of memory (any sane app nowadays does not allocate > memory from data/bss). >
.data/.bss is writable, and will need to be allocated to avoid overcommitment, so the exec() will fail.
-hpa
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