On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> On 6/26/07, Davide Libenzi <[email protected]> wrote:
> > The following patch implements the sys_brk2() syscall, that nothing is
> > other than a sys_brk() with an extra "flags" parameter.
>
> Shouldn't we wait for Linus' sys_indirect to arrive and make this
> another syscall which takes advantage of it?
I acutally have the code for it, but I never posted it since it did not
receive a too warm review (and the only user was the fdmap thingy).
OTOH glibc could implement __morecore using mmap(MAP_NOZERO), and hence
brk2() would not be needed, no?
- Davide
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