Re: Illegal use of reserved word in system.h

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On Thu, 19 May 2005, Steven Rostedt wrote:

> > See create_elf_tables.  The aux table comes after the environment.
> 
> As I stated earlier, the page size passed in there is ELF_EXEC_PAGESIZE
> which may not be the same as PAGE_SIZE.

 Well, AT_PAGESZ is specified as "system page size".  If we pass something 
else, then it's asking for troubles.  What comes from AT_PAGESZ is used by 
userland for stuff like masking arguments for mmap() and mprotect() so 
it'd better be the right value.

  Maciej
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