On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 03:43:10PM +0000, Aled Morris wrote:
>malloc appears to mmap pages from fd -1, and makes them private and
>read/write (except on sparc architecture, where it uses /dev/zero rather
>than -1, which makes more sense to me)
>
>It isn't particularly complicated:
>
>newmem = mmap(0, size, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_ANON|MAP_PRIVATE, -1, 0);
Thanks, Aled. I'll play with it. Will try both -1 and /dev/zero.
Cheers,
Adam
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