Re: "rwxp" permissions for pthread stack and guard pages "---p" leak on ARM

[Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>]

On Tuesday 06 October 2009 12:41:01 Ravi Sankar wrote:
> Using glibc-2.5, Linux 2.6.24 on ARM Cortex -A8.
> 
> I create a ntpl thread with attributes as "detached", and upon
> finishing the start routine of the thread it just "returns". (no
> pthread_exit call). Sometimes I observe that thread stack and its
> guard pages are still visible using /proc/pid/maps entry even after
> the thread exited. So in due course of time, as we keep on creating
> such threads the process runs out of VM.

you've sent this e-mail to the binutils list.  nothing you've described here 
is related to binutils.  try an arm or glibc mailing list instead.  you also 
really should upgrade your old versions of software.
-mike

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