The cygheap saga

Corinna Vinschen vinschen@redhat.com
Sat Apr 3 17:26:00 GMT 2004


On Apr  3 12:18, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> I wonder if cygheap should just be using techniques similar to fork and
> avoiding the use of shared memory.

When looking into the AT_EXTENDABLE_FILE stuff for mmap, I came across
the SEC_BASED flag to ZwCreateSection.  I'm wondering if that might help,
at least on NT.  Of course this flag will have some crude, undocumented
restrictions as it seems to be natural in the native NT API.

Corinna

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