On Tuesday 01 November 2011 15:01:55 Matthias Weisser wrote: > Am 01.11.2011 19:52, schrieb Mike Frysinger: > > On Tuesday 01 November 2011 14:37:24 Matthias Weisser wrote: > >> I don't know the memory layout strategies for all the Linux/Unix variant > >> out there. But typically text/bss/data is in the lower address range > >> (some megs above 0) and in the upper range (right under kernel space) > >> there is space used for stack and shared objects. Even with ASLR the > >> address I used in the patch should be mappable. > > > > relying on any address layout behavior is doomed to fail. and in this > > case, it's unnecessary. so let's not bother. > > Accepted but not convinced :-) As the address passed to mmap is only a > hint it will not fail. But I will remove the hint in V2 of the patch.
by "fail" i meant "relying on the address being the same all the time". not "mmap returned MAP_FAILED". -mike
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