Re: [test patch] dirty shared mappings

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Fri, 9 Jan 1998 11:54:05 -0800 (PST)

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On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, Jim Nance wrote:
>
> I think only children can get it. To test this I wrote the test program
> which is appended to the end of this email.
>
> When I run it under Digital Unix I get:
>
> ptr contains the string ""

Right ho. Ok, then the whole discussion is moot, because we really need to
do something like the shm code anyway. That is actually the easiest
solution by far, but I do agree with Alexey that the shm code itself could
be prettier.

(I disagree with Alexeys opinion that it couldn't be worse - it _used_ to
be worse ;)

Linus

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