On Monday, June 20, 2011 17:11:14 Greg Stark wrote: > 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. As the nitpicking has already started: Afair its just passing -1 as fd and uses the MAP_ANONYMOUS flag argument ;)
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