16 Mar
2017
16 Mar
'17
9:21 a.m.
On Wed, 15 Mar 2017, Till Smejkal wrote:
On Wed, 15 Mar 2017, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
VAS segments on the other side would provide a functionality to achieve the same without the need of any mounted filesystem. However, I agree, that this is just a small advantage compared to what can already be achieved with the existing functionality provided by the Linux kernel.
I see this "small advantage" as "resource leak and security problem".
I don't agree here. VAS segments are basically in-memory files that are handled by the kernel directly without using a file system. Hence, if an
Why do we need yet another mechanism to represent something which looks like a file instead of simply using existing mechanisms and extend them?
Thanks,
tglx