Subject: Re: PROPOSAL: removal of brk()/sbrk().
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/01/2002 06:59:16 
On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 07:02:21PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> 
> In article <3C7E6E7C.2070005@mac.com>, Andrew Cagney <cagney@mac.com> wrote:
> >Probably stupid but related question.
> >
> >Does sbrk() return zero'ed memory.  Looking at some code (moncontrol()) 
> >it appears to assume this.
> >
> >Andrew
> >
> 
> Maybe if it comes fresh from uvm :-)... Otherwise no guarantees.
> 
Isn't that a security breach?

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