Subject: Re: PROPOSAL: removal of brk()/sbrk().
To: Wolfgang Solfrank <ws@tools.de>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/01/2002 12:05:15
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 08:31:28PM +0100, Wolfgang Solfrank wrote:

 > While this may be good advice for security related data, you surely
 > don't mean to say that the kernel isn't in the duty to only hand out
 > appropriately initialized memory, do you?

Obviously for first-use of an address in a program, the kernel gives
zero-filled pages.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>