On 02.10.20 19:19, Topi Miettinen wrote: > The brk() system call allows to change data segment size (heap). This > is mainly used by glibc for memory allocation, but it can use mmap() > and that results in more randomized memory mappings since the heap is > always located at fixed offset to program while mmap()ed memory is > randomized. Want to take more Unix out of Linux? Honestly, why care about disabling? User space can happily use mmap() if it prefers. -- Thanks, David / dhildenb