From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
To: Bernd Schmidt <bernds_cb1@t-online.de>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
"Wu, Bryan" <Bryan.Wu@analog.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFD]: Unbreak no-mmu mmap
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2007 14:10:10 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070609191010.GB11166@waste.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46695F6D.5050600@t-online.de>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-09 19:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-08 13:53 Bernd Schmidt
2007-06-09 19:10 ` Matt Mackall [this message]
2007-06-11 21:08 ` Robin Getz
2007-06-11 22:09 ` Mike Frysinger
2007-06-11 23:04 ` Bernd Schmidt
2007-06-11 23:22 ` Mike Frysinger
2007-06-19 23:26 ` Robin Getz
2007-06-20 2:38 ` Bryan Wu
2007-06-20 3:00 ` Paul Mundt
2007-06-20 3:18 ` Bryan Wu
2007-06-27 5:50 ` Greg Ungerer
2007-06-22 12:59 ` David Howells
2007-06-22 13:35 ` David Howells
2007-06-22 14:29 ` [PATCH] NOMMU: " David Howells
2007-08-01 12:29 ` [PATCH, RFD]: " David Howells
2007-08-03 14:03 ` [PATCH] NOMMU: Separate out VMAs David Howells
2007-08-07 13:12 ` Bernd Schmidt
2007-08-07 13:17 ` David Howells
2007-08-07 13:21 ` David Howells
2007-08-07 13:37 ` Bernd Schmidt
2007-08-07 14:03 ` David Howells
2007-08-17 11:49 ` Bernd Schmidt
2007-08-20 15:12 ` David Howells
2007-08-20 16:02 ` Bernd Schmidt
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