On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Florian Pflug <f...@phlo.org> wrote:
> Are you sure? Isn't mmap()ing /dev/null a way to *allocate* memory?
>
> Or at least this is what I always thought glibc does when you malloc()

It mmaps /dev/zero actually.


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