Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 08 Jan 2002 18:52:13 -0800 | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | | Subject | Re: can we make anonymous memory non-EXECUTABLE? |
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Rik van Riel wrote:
> On 8 Jan 2002, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > >>One way to do this would be to create a newbrk() syscall which takes a >>permission argument (for new pages.) >> > > ITYM mmap(2) >
That's an idea, too. WTF do we actually need brk() for? If it's only there to be annoying, let's get rid of it completely and let the C library implement it -- stating its assumptions explicitly.
-hpa
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