Re: [PATCH] mm: optionally disable brk()

[Jonathan Corbet]

On Mon, 5 Oct 2020 11:11:35 +0300
Topi Miettinen <toiwoton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The point is not to shrink the kernel (it will shrink by one small 
> function) or get rid of complexity. The point is to disable an inferior 
> interface. Memory returned by mmap() is at a random location but with 
> brk() it is located near the data segment, so the address is more easily 
> predictable.

So if your true objective is to get glibc to allocate memory differently,
perhaps the right thing to do is to patch glibc?

Thanks,

jon