Subject: Re: X server as a Unix system process
To: Manuel BOUYER <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
From: Jukka Marin <jmarin@pyy.jmp.fi>
List: tech-kern
Date: 07/15/1997 18:54:06
On Tue, Jul 15, 1997 at 05:43:23PM +0200, Manuel BOUYER wrote:
> Did I dream, or does the recent X servers use mmap/munmap to get memory,
> instead of the standart maloc() (which uses sbrk()), so that allocated memory
> can really be freed ?  I can't remember where I read this.

Yes, this has been true since XFree 3.1.2B, I hear.  I think my problems
began at the time when this method was first employed..

  -jm


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