Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756653AbZGBPa3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Jul 2009 11:30:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752515AbZGBPaT (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Jul 2009 11:30:19 -0400 Received: from quickstop.soohrt.org ([85.131.246.152]:50104 "EHLO quickstop.soohrt.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752095AbZGBPaS (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Jul 2009 11:30:18 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 400 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:30:18 EDT Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 17:23:38 +0200 From: Horst Schirmeier To: rdunlap@xenotime.net Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, trivial@kernel.org Subject: [PATCH] doc: missing value 2 for randomize-va-space Message-ID: <20090702152338.GU26384@quickstop.soohrt.org> Mail-Followup-To: rdunlap@xenotime.net, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, trivial@kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1191 Lines: 29 The documentation for /proc/sys/kernel/* does not mention the possible value 2 for randomize-va-space (but already mentions what it does). Signed-off-by: Horst Schirmeier --- Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt index 322a00b..b2af4ef 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt @@ -310,7 +310,7 @@ that support this feature. loaded to random addresses. Also for PIE-linked binaries, the location of code start is randomized. - With heap randomization, the situation is a little bit more +2 - With heap randomization, the situation is a little bit more complicated. There a few legacy applications out there (such as some ancient versions of libc.so.5 from 1996) that assume that brk area starts -- PGP-Key 0xD40E0E7A -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/