Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Jun 2007 18:09:32 -0400 | From | "Mike Frysinger" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH, RFD]: Unbreak no-mmu mmap |
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On 6/9/07, Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> wrote: > 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.
it isnt breaking anything ... simplemalloc() will continue to execute in newer kernels -mike - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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