From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 24 9:12: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from earth.backplane.com (earth-nat-cw.backplane.com [208.161.114.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4D7137B405 for ; Fri, 24 Aug 2001 09:12:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon@earth.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by earth.backplane.com (8.11.4/8.11.2) id f7OGBok95888; Fri, 24 Aug 2001 09:11:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 09:11:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Matt Dillon Message-Id: <200108241611.f7OGBok95888@earth.backplane.com> To: David Greenman Cc: Giorgos Keramidas , Julian Elischer , Alfred Perlstein , Bernd Walter , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mmap MAP_INHERIT question. References: <200108231738.f7NHcVo87785@earth.backplane.com> <20010823223315.B2991@hades.hell.gr> <20010823125905.L63814@nexus.root.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :> :> MAP_INHERIT This is supposed to permit regions to be :> inherited across execve(2) system calls, :> but is currently broken. : : Support for the flag and reference to it in the manpage should just be :removed. : :-DG : :David Greenman Yah, I agree. Even if we implemented it it would be a massive security hole. a MAP_SHARED mmap() is easier. -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message