[uClibc] mmaps for malloc should be private

Alexandre Oliva aoliva at redhat.com
Tue Mar 23 00:22:52 UTC 2004


On Mar 21, 2004, David McCullough <davidm at snapgear.com> wrote:

> The dynamic loader doesn't run on uClinux (AFAIK ;-)

It does.  At least on frv-uclinux.

> The basic problem is that on uClinux systems,  private mappings fail and
> always have

Not on frv-uclinux, for sure.  Does it really, on other uClinux ports?
I hope not.

> what you are trying to achieve with NOMMU libs on MMU systems ;-)

Running NOMMU apps on an MMU system is just a nice way to test the
NOMMU apps, and to bootstrap an MMU libc port.

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