Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 11 Jan 2007 09:39:34 +0200 | From | "Pekka Enberg" <> | Subject | Re: mprotect abuse in slim |
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On 1/10/07, Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> wrote: > But since it looks like you just munmap the region now, shouldn't a > subsequent munmap by the app just return -EINVAL? that seems appropriate > to me.
Applications don't know about revoke and neither should they. Therefore close(2) and munmap(2) must work the same way they would for non-revoked inodes so that applications can release resources properly.
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