arc4random weakness

Andrey Chernov
Wed, 15 Mar 2017 20:13:26 -0000

On 15.03.2017 16:06, Steven Chamberlain wrote:
> Also it is great to see INHERIT_ZERO was added to mmap(2)!

It is not so great. For a program which forks very often zeroing even
one page will be slowdown. It will be better and faster to implement it
as fork syscall wrapper setting single variable, as it already done for
threaded lib.



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