Re: Latest brk patchset

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Sat Mar 14 2009 - 21:41:38 EST


On this subject, what is the point of the 64 K "slop space", and if it
is necessary, why not just put it as a RESERVE_BRK() somewhere (*with* a
significant comment as to its necessity) instead of putting it as a
hack in the linker script?

-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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