[Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch

[Miles Bader]

Ollivier Robert <address@hidden> writes:
> > present in the page cache.  You won't see it normally, because you
> > cannot read() beyond the end of the file, but mmap() can only map
> > complete pages, so you suddenly see the data (and it was random data
> > from kernel or user space, typically not something which ever was on
> > disk).
> 
> Am I the only one that sees that as a potential security problem?

Nope; that's the usual reason given why this is a very bad thing.

-Miles
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