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Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 23:45:44 -0600
From: Alan Cox <alc@cs.rice.edu>
To: Paul Saab <ps@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/sys madvise.2 mmap.2 src/sys/kern imgact_elf.c src/sys/sys mman.h src/sys/vm vm_map.c vm_map.h vm_mmap.c
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On Sun, Feb 27, 2000 at 08:10:37PM -0800, Paul Saab wrote:
> ps          2000/02/27 20:10:36 PST
> 
>   Modified files:
>     lib/libc/sys         madvise.2 mmap.2 
>     sys/kern             imgact_elf.c 
>     sys/sys              mman.h 
>     sys/vm               vm_map.c vm_map.h vm_mmap.c 
>   Log:
>   Add MAP_NOCORE to mmap(2), and MADV_NOCORE and MADV_CORE to madvise(2).
>   This
>   This feature allows you to specify if mmap'd data is included in
>   an application's corefile.
>   

It's not just mmap'ed regions of the address space.  I can perform
an madvise MADV_CORE on any part of the address space and exclude it
from the core file.  I would suggest changing the comment in
imgact_elf.c to reflect this.

Alan


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