Re: /proc/<n>/maps getting _VERY_ long

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Mon, 6 Aug 2001 12:52:37 +0100 (BST)

> Do you count applications which selectively mprotect()'s memory (to
> trap SIGSEGV and maintain coherency with on-disk data structures) as
> "broken applications"?
>
> Such applications *can* use large amounts of mprotect()'s.

That would explain a lot since mprotect currently doesn't seem to do
merging, and worse it also seems to not be doing rlimit checking right
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