Re: Some questions about linux kernel.

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Mon Mar 20 2000 - 19:58:50 EST

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> Malloc(), as stated before, just sets a new break address when it
> runs out of heap. It keeps track of the heap, but not very carefully.

Not any more. Modern mallocs are a lot smarter. They also use mmap for
their backing store

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