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Re: [f-cpu] optional SRB



On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 02:52:01AM +0100, Yann Guidon wrote:

> PS : i recently attended a conference about GNU/Hurd and i have
> seen some Hurd sourcec code. It's very far from POSIX but
> one of the most crazy things i've seen is ... mmap() used for doing
> a malloc() .....

Huh? Linux (glibc) does that all the time (and has been doing it for
many years), if the requested size is big enough.

-- 
 Michael "Tired" Riepe <Michael.Riepe@stud.uni-hannover.de>
 "All I wanna do is have a little fun before I die"
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