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SubjectRe: address space reservation functionality?
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> Sorry about the top posting. This is a resend without it.
>
> This is not quite the same thing. This still does a check for whether
> or not there is enough memory

no it doesn't


> and includes this in the virtual size of
> the process.

because the virtual size is taken.... by the reservation

> I simply want to reserve a part of the address space so
> I'm guaranteed I can map something else over a contiguous portion of the
> address space. I don't want it to check for available memory or
> increase the virtual size of the process because I will be using this
> region sparsely. That is why Solaris and Windows have separate
> interfaces for this.

well you can mmap /dev/zero.. but that's about the same as malloc.


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