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From: Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: can we make anonymous memory non-EXECUTABLE?
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 02:40:10 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020109094010.GA8743@codepoet.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a1gar7$12t$1@cesium.transmeta.com> <E16O998-0008Vo-00@the-village.bc.nu>
In-Reply-To: <E16O998-0008Vo-00@the-village.bc.nu>

On Wed Jan 09, 2002 at 03:11:22AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > One way to do this would be to create a newbrk() syscall which takes a
> > permission argument (for new pages.)
> 
> brk(), mmap().
> 
> Welcome to libc 8)

Umm.  How can libc implement mmap without the kernel
handing out the pages?  I don't get it.

 -Erik

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  reply	other threads:[~2002-01-09  9:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-01-08  0:25 can we make anonymous memory non-EXECUTABLE? David Mosberger
2002-01-08  6:02 ` David S. Miller
2002-01-08 19:12   ` David Mosberger
2002-01-08 19:32     ` Albert D. Cahalan
2002-01-09  2:44     ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-09  2:49       ` Rik van Riel
2002-01-09  2:52         ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-09 11:32           ` Rob Landley
2002-01-09 19:47             ` Doug McNaught
2002-01-09  3:11       ` Alan Cox
2002-01-09  9:40         ` Erik Andersen [this message]
2002-01-08 13:23 ` Alan Cox
2002-01-08 19:15   ` [Linux-ia64] " David Mosberger
2002-01-11  5:49   ` David Mosberger
2002-01-10  1:04 ` Paul Mackerras
2002-01-10  3:40   ` David Mosberger

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