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Re: Use munmap when loading ELF
On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 11:59:21AM -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
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> Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > There may be a reason I haven't thought of why this is a bad idea, but it
> > definitely works. This patch eliminates the "---p" mappings that glibc
> > tends to leave around on architectures with a larger MAXPAGESIZE (ARM,
> > PowerPC, et cetera).
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> > Thoughts?
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> Won't be applied. The space is reserved so that nothing gets mapped
> there. No code must have any problems with the ---p maps.
OK. But is there any way something could be mapped there and do harm?
I suppose it could make some heap allocated memory memory appear to
come from a shared library?
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer