Re: procfs cleanup

Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Sat, 20 Nov 1999 09:43:12 -0500 (EST)


On 20 Nov 1999, David Wragg wrote:

> > [snip]
>
> I noticed that mmap of /proc/xxx/mem went away in 2.3.27. Is there any
> chance it will reappear? XFree86-3.9.x uses it, though I don't know
> the details.

Define semantics for it, please. Old one was rather random and could lead
to _really_ ugly side effects. Where (and how) was it used (i.e. what do
you really want there)?

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