On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 12:58:28AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2004-05-06 16:44:54 -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > The documentation in the 2.4 kernel is, indeed, wrong IIRC. > > > > BTW, from 2.6: > > In mode 2 the MAP_NORESERVE flag is ignored. > > This is precisely what I thought to be the bug in glibc: the fact > (at least with the 2.4 kernel) that this flag is used by glibc. > On which documentation is glibc based (in particular, concerning > old_mmap)?
I don't know. The comments suggest malloc made the choice deliberately, though, so I don't think it's appropriate to reverse it. -- Daniel Jacobowitz