Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Feb 2006 10:13:25 +0200 | From | "Michael S. Tsirkin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] madvise MADV_DONTFORK/MADV_DOFORK |
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Quoting r. Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>: > Michael, what led you to choose 0x30 and 0x31 for the two new values? > It does seem that keeping them uniform across architectures is a > reasonable thing to do, but as far as I can tell the values 9 and 10 > are unused on all architectures, and have the added merit of not > falling in the parisc reserved range.
No particular reason - I just selected values away from the rest of pack. Lets go ahead and change them.
> Do we still have a chance to change this? So, any value consistent across architectures will do.
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