re: lib/52842: Obsolete brk(2)/sbrk(2)

[matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR lib/52842; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: lib-bug-people%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost,
    netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: re: lib/52842: Obsolete brk(2)/sbrk(2)
Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2018 07:06:50 +1100

 why?
 
 there's no good reason to remove this useful functionality.
 we'll need to keep it for backwards compat anyway.  i'm not
 even sure you can do it without significantly restructuring
 how exec works.
 
 i don't see any real benefit.
 
 
 .mrg.