Rik van Riel wrote:
> On 8 Jan 2002, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
>
>>One way to do this would be to create a newbrk() syscall which takes a
>>permission argument (for new pages.)
>>
>
> ITYM mmap(2)
>
That's an idea, too. WTF do we actually need brk() for? If it's only
there to be annoying, let's get rid of it completely and let the C
library implement it -- stating its assumptions explicitly.
-hpa
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