Re: What I suspect

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 8 Dec 1999 16:29:33 +0000 (GMT)

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> implementations will need to be kept in an __init section), why not
> allow mmap(2) mappings to be inherited across execve(2)?
>
> Add a new MAP_INHERIT flag to specify which mappings are to be
> retained, and a new syscall to get the list of inherited mappings?

I dont even want to think about the security issues. Linus trick btw is much
of how HP/UX syscalls work anyway, although they have specific instructions
involved in their stuff.

Alan

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