Re: Whats in this vaddr segment 0xffffe000-0xfffff000 ---p ?

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On Fri, 22 Jul 2005, linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote:

> Seems to be readable and starts with 'ELF'. It's something the the 'C'
> runtime may library use to make syscalls to the kernel. Older libraries
> used interrupt 0x80, newer ones may use this. Roland McGrath has made
> patches to this segment so maybe he knows.

This page is a vsyscall page. See http://lwn.net/Articles/30258/

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JiKos.
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