On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 20:53, Fredrick <fjohnber@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
-- When you malloc a memory or mmap a MAP_ANON memory, it is virtually
allocated. When you read or write to it, the process takes a page fault.
The page fault handler zeroes those memory and hands it to the process.
So I think there is no leak.
-Fredrick
Thanks for clearing that up. I learned something today. :)
Peace and Blessings,
-Scott.
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