Reply to post: Re: Linux patch

New side-channel leak: Boffins bash operating system page caches until they spill secrets

Martin
IT Angle

Re: Linux patch

Merely a question, as I don't understand exactly what mincore() is or what it's used for - but it you change it to report mapped pages, rather than present pages, aren't you changing it's functionality? and doesn't that mean that it might break some working software somewhere?

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