Matthew Dillon wrote:
    You could just request more space then you need and randomly offset
    the allocations you do from within that space.  That has the same
    result pretty much.

well, that's quite different.  randomizing mmap offsets gives a real random 
distribution over the whole userland address space.  allocating more and then 
offsetting within this allocation still gives a deterministic order of 
allocated memory locations, just the padding between those varies.

cheers
 simon

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