> Removal of the brk() and sbrk() interfaces, or actually: stop using
> the break() system call for process heap.

What about legacy static binaries?  ISTM the scheme you propose is a
win only if you put mmap segments immediately after _end (give or take
a page or so), but that will break legacy binaries that expect to use
brk().

Or Am I Missing Something?

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