[issue514] patch to randomize mmap offsets

Matthew Dillon dillon at apollo.backplane.com
Wed Nov 24 10:30:21 PST 2010


:Alex Hornung <ahornung at gmail.com> added the comment:
:
:Well, 3 and a half years later it's after the release, so let's get it in.
:
:Cheers,
:Alex Hornung

    I dunno.  I never liked the concept of randomizing mmap offsets.
    It could potentially create massive fragmentation of a process's
    memory map as well as make testing more difficult.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon at backplane.com>





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