Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2008 15:23:52 -0700 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Jason Evans <jasone@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: sbrk(2) broken Message-ID: <477D6078.5030805@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <863ateemw2.fsf@ds4.des.no> References: <477C82F0.5060809@freebsd.org> <863ateemw2.fsf@ds4.des.no>
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Jason Evans <jasone@freebsd.org> writes: >> [sbrk is broken] > > The real question is why we would revert perfectly good code (jemalloc) > from using a modern interface to using one that has been obsolete for > twenty years, and marked as such in the man page for seven years. > > If rwatson@ wants malloc() to respect resource limits, he can bloody > well fix mmap(). Until he does, the datasize limit is a joke anyway, as > anyone can circumvent it by either using mmap() instead of malloc() or > setting _malloc_options before calling malloc(). > That is a pretty damning argument in my mind. Why make such a major change right before the release when it's effectively useless? Scott
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