[openssl-users] openssl cms -decrypt failing due to malloc(3) failure

[Michael Wojcik]

> From: openssl-users [mailto:openssl-users-bounces at openssl.org] On Behalf
> Of Christian Böhme
> Sent: Monday, July 30, 2018 02:57
>
> For the latter, if the argument to  -in  can be determined to resolve to a file
> descriptor of a regular file, the file's contents can be /very/ conveniently
> mmap(2)'ed
> into the process' address space, ignoring possible limits.

Not portably, it can't. There are operating systems other than Linux and UNIX, and OpenSSL supports a number of them.

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Michael Wojcik
Distinguished Engineer, Micro Focus