Re: Question on mmap() in 64-bit OS

LaBird wrote:
Hi Phil,

<phil-news-nospam@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Come the day we actually need more than 48-bit addresses, there will also
be a lot of structural changes, primarily affecting the kernel and how it
handles things like virtual memory and simultaneous views of kernel space
and user space (things are a whole lot easier if the kernel can at least
have the whole kernel space and one whole VM in its view at once). Given


I agree with you. Perhaps with a large address space, the process space should be a global one for all processes in execution, rather than each process having its own process space.

You mean, that each process should be able to peek into another process' address space?
Think again: this is as non-secure as you can ever get.

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