Samuel Thibault writes:
>>when allocating an anonymous physical page on a Page Fault,
>> why does kernel have to fill it with zeroes?
>> I understand it has something to do with security.
>See man mmap. Anonymous memory is explicitly documented as being set to
>0.
>Samuel
Ok,thanks. So libraries
Hey guys,
I was wondering, when allocating an anonymous physical page on a Page
Fault, why does kernel have to fill it with zeroes?
I understand it has something to do with security.
But let's say I trust my environment. Then why when I disable zeroing of
the allocated pages, the applications cras
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