[nsd-users] Remove needless memory zeroing
Stephane Bortzmeyer
bortzmeyer at nic.fr
Tue Jan 19 16:42:41 UTC 2016
On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 10:46:03PM -0500,
Michael McConville <mmcco at mykolab.com> wrote
a message of 24 lines which said:
> Unless I'm misunderstanding something, anonymously mmapped memory is
> always zeroed by the kernel
This is written in Linux mmap man page:
> its contents are initialized to zero
But not in FreeBSD mmap man page:
> MAP_ANON Map anonymous memory not associated with any specific
> file. The file descriptor used for creating MAP_ANON
> must be -1. The offset argument must be 0.
So, portability seems to require mmset.
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