From: "Laurent Bercot" <ska-supervision@skarnet.org>
To: Supervision <supervision@list.skarnet.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] prctl: (Please do not!) Deprecate non PR_SET_MM_MAP operations
Date: Sun, 20 May 2018 15:57:23 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <em1ec3b74c-9850-454b-a313-b980b5e18899@elzian> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9329a166-7295-8d66-9e12-b31abc887724@ntlworld.com>
>The subject of deprecating and removing the API that permits this came
>up recently on the Linux Kernel Mailing List. I raised my concerns,
>and the Linux Kernel developers have been laudably responsive on the
>subject. As I said to them, I would welcome a better API, that allows
>setting these things atomically, start and length together as a pair.
Thanks for doing the necessary and often ungrateful work of keeping
kernel developers in check, Jonathan. ;)
--
Laurent
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2018-05-20 15:57 ` Laurent Bercot [this message]
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2018-05-20 13:36 ` Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
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