Re: /proc/<n>/maps growing...

From: Chris Wedgwood (cw@f00f.org)
Date: Mon Aug 06 2001 - 04:46:02 EST

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On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 02:20:42AM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:

I think he's right. The old code was trying to do everything and
made the locking more difficult than it needed to be.

I just posted an analysis of this (a bit nebulous and hand-waving in
nature) which seems to indicate to me this _can_ probably be fixed in
userspace, specifically glibc.

Not not that I've checked the glibc code recently...

< .... wanders off to try to grok glibc .... >

--cw

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