Re: RFC: named anonymous vmas

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Sat Jun 22 2013 - 06:32:36 EST


On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 04:42:41PM -0700, Colin Cross wrote:
> ranges, which John Stultz has been implementing. The second is
> anonymous shareable memory without having a world-writable tmpfs that
> untrusted apps could fill with files.

I still haven't seen any explanation of what ashmem buys over a shared
mmap of /dev/zero in that respect, btw.

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