[PATCH]: MAX_MAP_COUNT -> /proc

From: Mike Perry (mikepery@is.so.fscked.org)
Date: Mon Oct 02 2000 - 00:07:12 EST

Well, Mark Hahn mailed me and brought up the point that there might be some
security issue for having the MAX_MAP_COUNT set lower than the full address
space (Although I don't see how you can do anything with more mappings if
RLIMIT_AS is set tight). He suggested something like this might be better
suited to /proc, like vm.overcommit_memory. So I went ahead and moved it to
/proc. I've attached a patch against 2.2.17 and 2.4.0test8. The default is
back to 65536. 

-- 
Mike Perry
http://so.fscked.org
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