On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 20:53, Fredrick <[email protected]> wrote:

> When you malloc a memory or mmap a MAP_ANON memory, it is virtually
> allocated. When you read or write to it, the process takes a page fault.
> The page fault handler zeroes those memory and hands it to the process.
> So I think there is no leak.
>
> -Fredrick
>
>

Thanks for clearing that up.  I learned something today. :)

-- 
Peace and Blessings,
-Scott.
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