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On 05/19/2014 03:58 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> 
> As a side effect, the vvar area will show up in core dumps.  This
> could be considered weird and is fixable.  Thoughts?
> 

On this issue... I don't know if this is likely to break anything.  My
suggestion is that we accept it as-is but be prepared to deal with it if
it breaks something.
	
	-hpa