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Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2007 22:21:34 +0400 From: Stas Sergeev <stsp@...et.ru> To: William Tambe <tambewilliam@...il.com> CC: Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: Concerning a post that you made about expandable anonymous shared mappings Hello. William Tambe wrote: > And it just doesn't make sens to have mmap() map ANONYMOUS shared memory > and mremap() not to expand it and make the expanded area available. I agree with this, but the argument against that approach was that then you can only enlarge the backing-store, but never shrink. I personally think it is a valid argument, even though the problem is probably not very important. Also, you can't expand the SysV SHM with mremap just as well - it will give you a SIGBUS too IIRC. So for that discussion of 2004, I lost the battle and was convinced that the proposed approach is not very good... > Would you happen to know how I can work around that issue for now, and > make writing in an expended area not to generate a Bus error? Have you tried the Posix SHM instead? It works very well for me. Back in 2004 the glibc had bugs, so I couldn't easily use posix shm and was thinking about the different approaches. But now it should suffice. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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