Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 5 Oct 2020 08:12:10 -0600 | From | Jonathan Corbet <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] mm: optionally disable brk() |
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On Mon, 5 Oct 2020 11:11:35 +0300 Topi Miettinen <toiwoton@gmail.com> wrote:
> The point is not to shrink the kernel (it will shrink by one small > function) or get rid of complexity. The point is to disable an inferior > interface. Memory returned by mmap() is at a random location but with > brk() it is located near the data segment, so the address is more easily > predictable.
So if your true objective is to get glibc to allocate memory differently, perhaps the right thing to do is to patch glibc?
Thanks,
jon
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