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Date: Tue,  6 Nov 2007 14:08:47 -0500
From: Robert William Fuller <hydrologiccycle@gmail.com>
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Paul Lalonde wrote:
> 
> On Nov 6, 2007, at 10:29 AM, Robert William Fuller wrote:
>>> In UNIX, set up a signal handler for SIGSEGV.
> 
> Not quite enough - I still need to reserve some address space.  mmap
> doesn't let me reserve it without backing it.

It does by default on Linux :-)