From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
To: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
Cc: Andy Isaacson <adi@hexapodia.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: wrong madvise(MADV_DONTNEED) semantic
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 21:41:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050628194128.GM4645@bouh.labri.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1119986623.6745.10.camel@betsy>
Robert Love, le Tue 28 Jun 2005 15:23:43 -0400, a écrit :
> I think we need to resolve the differences between the man pages,
> comments, expected user behavior, kernel implementation, POSIX standard,
> and what other OS's do. Figure out what to do, then unify everything.
Well, posix says data should be kept. The solaris man page for madvise,
since it proposes a MADV_FREE case too do agree with posix.
I've tested the program (thanks Andy) on solaris 5.8, it does work fine.
On OSF1 it failed on the anonymous case.
Some people may want their data to be kept, so the safe side is to keep
data safe, i.e. both kernel and manpage be corrected, but leave a bug
notice in the manpage about previous kernels.
Regards,
Samuel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-28 19:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-28 13:43 Samuel Thibault
2005-06-28 14:38 ` [Patch] Hotfix for " Jörn Engel
2005-06-28 18:16 ` Andy Isaacson
2005-06-28 18:28 ` Robert Love
2005-06-28 18:53 ` Andy Isaacson
2005-06-28 19:23 ` Robert Love
2005-06-28 19:41 ` Samuel Thibault [this message]
2005-06-28 20:03 ` Jörn Engel
2005-06-28 20:05 ` Robert Love
2005-06-28 20:17 ` Jörn Engel
2005-06-28 20:20 ` Samuel Thibault
2005-06-28 20:30 ` Jörn Engel
2005-06-28 20:37 ` Andy Isaacson
2005-07-05 23:39 ` Darren Hart
2005-06-29 16:53 ` wrong madvise(MADV DONTNEED) semantic Michael Kerrisk
2005-06-29 17:22 ` Jamie Lokier
2005-06-29 16:34 ` Michael Kerrisk
2005-06-28 18:54 ` wrong madvise(MADV_DONTNEED) semantic Samuel Thibault
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