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Date:      Fri, 17 Mar 2017 07:03:54 +0100
From:      Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@bec.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: arc4random weakness
Message-ID:  <20170317060354.GB9951@britannica.bec.de>
In-Reply-To: <5160183b-9778-59aa-6cf9-118014a588eb@freebsd.org>
References:  <CAD2Ti28acbW%2BpGQR5UihECWvg9WduGmVzkVFug_2ZWRF2zyTBw@mail.gmail.com> <20170313220639.GB65190@pyro.eu.org> <20170315130615.GC25448@pyro.eu.org> <5160183b-9778-59aa-6cf9-118014a588eb@freebsd.org>

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On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 11:13:26PM +0300, Andrey Chernov wrote:
> On 15.03.2017 16:06, Steven Chamberlain wrote:
> > Also it is great to see INHERIT_ZERO was added to mmap(2)!
> 
> It is not so great. For a program which forks very often zeroing even
> one page will be slowdown. It will be better and faster to implement it
> as fork syscall wrapper setting single variable, as it already done for
> threaded lib.

A program which forks very often is slow enough by nature. I don't think
the overhead of zeroing another page is going to make a huge difference
for that.

Joerg



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