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Author	Pedro Lacerda
Recipients	Pedro Lacerda, christian.heimes
Date	2016-06-16.06:00:59
SpamBayes Score	-1.0
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Message-id	<1466056859.63.0.34840931303.issue26836@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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Maybe useful at mmapmodule.c replacing /* SVR4 method to map anonymous memory is to open /dev/zero */ fd = devzero = _Py_open("/dev/zero", O_RDWR); tagname is unused at UNIX version of new_mmap_object() so if provided something like could be added for Linux only fd = memfd_create(tagname, O_RDWR);

Maybe useful at mmapmodule.c replacing

        /* SVR4 method to map anonymous memory is to open /dev/zero */
        fd = devzero = _Py_open("/dev/zero", O_RDWR);

tagname is unused at UNIX version of new_mmap_object() so if provided something like could be added for Linux only
        fd = memfd_create(tagname, O_RDWR);

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Date	User	Action	Args
2016-06-16 06:00:59	Pedro Lacerda	set	recipients: + Pedro Lacerda, christian.heimes
2016-06-16 06:00:59	Pedro Lacerda	set	messageid: <1466056859.63.0.34840931303.issue26836@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2016-06-16 06:00:59	Pedro Lacerda	link	issue26836 messages
2016-06-16 06:00:59	Pedro Lacerda	create