Messages in this thread | | | From | "Albert D. Cahalan" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] User chroot | Date | Wed, 27 Jun 2001 17:19:38 -0400 (EDT) |
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H. Peter Anvin writes: > "Albert D. Cahalan" wrote:
>> BTW, it is way wrong that /dev/zero should be needed at all. >> Such use is undocumented ("man zero", "man mmap") anyway, and >> AFAIK one should use mmap() with MAP_ANON instead. Not that >> the documentation on MAP_ANON is any good either, but at least >> the mere existence of the flag is mentioned. > > RTFM(POSIX).
No manual entry for RTFM in section POSIX
Seriously:
1. both features ought to be documented in the man pages (I did submit a man page too, back in 1996)
2. it is slow and nasty to open /dev/zero for getting memory - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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