Re: missing madvise functionality

Jörn Engel
2007-04-03T21:12:38Z

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?

JA?rn

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