On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 12:26:50AM +1200, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> > mmap does merge in many common cases.
>
> (assuming you speak about 2.2 because 2.4 obviously doesn't merge
> anything and that's the point of the discussion) So what? What do you
> mean with your observation?
2.4.x _does_ merge. Look for yourself. It doesn't merge mprotects, no. And
why should glibc do mprotect() for a malloc() call? Electric Fence, yes.
glibc, no.
Linus
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