RE: [RFC PATCH 0/5] madvise MADV_DOEXEC

David Laight
2020-08-03T08:32:19Z

> Maybe. We still need to preserve an anonymous segment, though. MADV_DOEXEC, or mshare,
> or something else. And I think the ability to preserve memory containing pointers to itself
> is an interesting use case, though not ours.

Why does all this remind me of the old sendmail code.
After parsing the config file it used to write its entire data
area out to a file.
On restart, if the config file hadn't changed it would read it back it.

It sort of worked - until shared libraries came along.
Then it had a habit of generating random crashes.

David

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