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Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2014 11:51:32 +0000 (UTC)
From: Thorsten Glaser <t.glaser@...ent.de>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Removing sbrk and brk

Rich Felker <dalias <at> aerifal.cx> writes:

> sbrk may be re-added sometime after 1.0 if malloc is changed to no
> longer use the brk (option 5 above).

You may want to import omalloc (based on mmap malloc, written from
scratch by Otto Moerbeek) with lots of security features:

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.c
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=malloc

It does assume that mmap() is randomised and NULs the result.

bye,
//mirabilos

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