Re: Why do we let munmap fail?

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On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 6:41 PM Daniel Colascione <dancol@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> That'd be good too, but I don't see how this guarantee would be easier to
> make. If you call mmap three times, those three allocations might end up
> merged into the same VMA, and if you called munmap on the middle
> allocation, you'd still have to split. Am I misunderstanding something?

Oh: a sequence number stored in the VMA, combined with a refusal to merge
across sequence number differences.




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