On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Jakub Jermar <[email protected]> wrote: > Interesting idea. It could, or more generally, the kernel could enforce > both gaps around all areas. The question is whether you'd want that. > Surely there is some maintenance associated with keeping the gaps at > their desired locations during resize and this feature is not that much > useful for anything but stacks.
It could be useful if in the future we will modify malloc() to make use of anonymous mmap whenever possible (for example for allocations >= PAGE_SIZE). This way you will obtain free buffer overruns protection. -- -------------------- Maurizio Lombardi _______________________________________________ HelenOS-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.modry.cz/cgi-bin/listinfo/helenos-devel
