Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 26 Jun 2007 20:55:32 -0700 (PDT) | From | Davide Libenzi <> | Subject | Re: [patch 2/3] MAP_NOZERO - implement sys_brk2() |
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On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> On 6/26/07, Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> wrote: > > The following patch implements the sys_brk2() syscall, that nothing is > > other than a sys_brk() with an extra "flags" parameter. > > Shouldn't we wait for Linus' sys_indirect to arrive and make this > another syscall which takes advantage of it?
I acutally have the code for it, but I never posted it since it did not receive a too warm review (and the only user was the fdmap thingy). OTOH glibc could implement __morecore using mmap(MAP_NOZERO), and hence brk2() would not be needed, no?
- Davide
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