From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general/2380 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Laurent Bercot" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general Subject: Re: [RFC] prctl: (Please do not!) Deprecate non PR_SET_MM_MAP operations Date: Sun, 20 May 2018 15:57:23 +0000 Message-ID: References: <9329a166-7295-8d66-9e12-b31abc887724@ntlworld.com> Reply-To: "Laurent Bercot" NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1526831718 13727 195.159.176.226 (20 May 2018 15:55:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 May 2018 15:55:18 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: eM_Client/7.1.31849.0 To: Supervision Original-X-From: supervision-return-1971-gcsg-supervision=m.gmane.org@list.skarnet.org Sun May 20 17:55:14 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcsg-supervision@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from alyss.skarnet.org ([95.142.172.232]) by blaine.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fKQfx-0003Rd-5W for gcsg-supervision@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 May 2018 17:55:13 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 1730 invoked by uid 89); 20 May 2018 15:57:50 -0000 Mailing-List: contact supervision-help@list.skarnet.org; run by ezmlm Original-Sender: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Original-Received: (qmail 1723 invoked from network); 20 May 2018 15:57:50 -0000 In-Reply-To: <9329a166-7295-8d66-9e12-b31abc887724@ntlworld.com> X-VR-SPAMSTATE: OK X-VR-SPAMSCORE: 0 X-VR-SPAMCAUSE: gggruggvucftvghtrhhoucdtuddrgedthedrfeejgdelkecutefuodetggdotefrodftvfcurfhrohhfihhlvgemucfpfgfogfftkfevteeunffgpdfqfgfvnecuuegrihhlohhuthemuceftddtnecunecujfgurhephffvufffkfgjfhhrfgggtgfgsehtqhertddtreejnecuhfhrohhmpedfnfgruhhrvghnthcuuegvrhgtohhtfdcuoehskhgrqdhsuhhpvghrvhhishhiohhnsehskhgrrhhnvghtrdhorhhgqeenucfrrghrrghmpehmohguvgepshhmthhpohhuthenucevlhhushhtvghrufhiiigvpedt Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general:2380 Archived-At: >The subject of deprecating and removing the API that permits this came=20 >up recently on the Linux Kernel Mailing List. I raised my concerns,=20 >and the Linux Kernel developers have been laudably responsive on the=20 >subject. As I said to them, I would welcome a better API, that allows=20 >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