Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 09:11:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> To: David Greenman <dg@root.com> Cc: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>, Bernd Walter <ticso@mail.cicely.de>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mmap MAP_INHERIT question. Message-ID: <200108241611.f7OGBok95888@earth.backplane.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0108231012330.48732-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> <200108231738.f7NHcVo87785@earth.backplane.com> <20010823223315.B2991@hades.hell.gr> <20010823125905.L63814@nexus.root.com>
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:> MAP_INHERIT This is supposed to permit regions to be
:> inherited across execve(2) system calls,
:> but is currently broken.
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: 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
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