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Message-ID: <20070609191010.GB11166@waste.org>
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2007 14:10:10 -0500
From: Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>
To: Bernd Schmidt <bernds_cb1@...nline.de>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
"Wu, Bryan" <Bryan.Wu@...log.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFD]: Unbreak no-mmu mmap
On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 03:53:49PM +0200, Bernd Schmidt wrote:
> 2. It is no longer possible to get blocks smaller than a page through
> mmap. This behaviour was used by simplemalloc, which is an insane
> way of implementing malloc on nommu systems and hopefully not used
> by anyone anymore.
That's worrisome. Breaking existing apps/libraries seems like a bad
idea.
--
Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.
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