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Subject: Re: /proc/<n>/maps getting _VERY_ long
To: cw@f00f.org (Chris Wedgwood)
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 14:17:32 +0100 (BST)
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> On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 12:52:37PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> 
>     That would explain a lot since mprotect currently doesn't seem to do
>     merging, and worse it also seems to not be doing rlimit checking right
> 
> Err stupid question, but why does it need to do rlimit checking?

mmap nothing over a large space
mprotect it read/write