memfd_create()

Posted Aug 1, 2018 11:25 UTC (Wed) by meuh (guest, #22042)
In reply to: ashmem by swetland
Parent article: Bringing Android closer to the mainline

Yup -- that was the main limitation (not being able to get an fd to pass to another process for mapping) that ashmem was working around.

One could now use memfd_create(), which is available since kernel 3.17.