Viacheslav Fedorov, le Mon 01 Apr 2013 11:11:44 -0500, a écrit : > I was wondering, when allocating an anonymous physical page on a Page Fault, > why does kernel have to fill it with zeroes? > I understand it has something to do with security. > But let's say I trust my environment. Then why when I disable zeroing of the > allocated pages, the applications crash in libc?
See man mmap. Anonymous memory is explicitly documented as being set to 0. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130401163113.gf17...@type.youpi.perso.aquilenet.fr
