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Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2014 13:59:18 +0100
From: Daniel Cegiełka <daniel.cegielka@...il.com>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Re: Removing sbrk and brk

2014/1/3 Thorsten Glaser <t.glaser@...ent.de>:
> 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

Yes, I also wanted to suggest malloc from OpenBSD. This may be the
right solution for musl.

Daniel

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