Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 5 Feb 2006 16:32:54 +0100 | From | "J.A. Magallon" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH ] VMSPLIT config options (with default config fixed) |
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On Sat, 04 Feb 2006 08:57:23 -0500, Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca> wrote:
> Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > > > What userspace programs do depend on it? > > That *is* the question, isn't it. > We simply don't know, other than that this is > a visible change to any program that cares. > > Gratuitis breakage of userspace is pointless. > > Empirically speaking, everything I use is working fine > here with the 2G/2G split, but that's just not good enough > reason to mindlessly break other people's userspace. >
The only thing I have seen that depends explicitely on this setting is valgrind, but I think that CVS included some kind of runtime configuration/selection.
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