Re: Sealed memfd & no-fault mmap

From: Simon Ser
Date: Thu Jun 03 2021 - 16:49:45 EST


On Thursday, June 3rd, 2021 at 10:07 PM, Ming Lin <mlin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In the new version of the patches, MAP_NOSIGBUS is not restricted to shmem.
> It can be used on ordinary files.

Oh, cool!

FWIW, if I had to choose between "MAP_NOSIGBUS not restricted to shm"
and "MAP_NOSIGBUS not restricted to MAP_PRIVATE", I'd probably choose
the latter. But of course the former is better than nothing at all.