On Wed, 15 Mar 2017, Till Smejkal wrote: > On Wed, 15 Mar 2017, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > > > VAS segments on the other side would provide a functionality to > > > achieve the same without the need of any mounted filesystem. However, > > > I agree, that this is just a small advantage compared to what can > > > already be achieved with the existing functionality provided by the > > > Linux kernel. > > > > I see this "small advantage" as "resource leak and security problem". > > I don't agree here. VAS segments are basically in-memory files that are > handled by the kernel directly without using a file system. Hence, if an Why do we need yet another mechanism to represent something which looks like a file instead of simply using existing mechanisms and extend them? Thanks, tglx
