Re: missing madvise functionality

[JÃrn Engel]

On Tue, 3 April 2007 23:10:14 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> 
> mmap()/brk() must give fresh NULL pages, but maybe madvise(MADV_DONTNEED) 
> can relax this requirement (if the pages were reclaimed, then a page fault 
> could bring a new page with random content)

...provided that it doesn't leak information from the kernel?

JÃrn

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