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Re: [PATCH v2] [BZ #10283] localedef: align fixed maps to SHMLBA
- From: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at redhat dot com>
- To: David Miller <davem at davemloft dot net>
- Cc: roland at hack dot frob dot com, vapier at gentoo dot org, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 22:54:18 -0400
- Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] [BZ #10283] localedef: align fixed maps to SHMLBA
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On 05/28/2013 09:07 PM, David Miller wrote:
> From: Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com>
> Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 16:14:03 -0700 (PDT)
>
>> Otherwise MAP_FIXED is essentially useless for anything other than
>> overwriting an existing mapping, and that means that the Linux
>> implementations on some machines are nonconforming.
>
> I like to use another term for something which has behaved in a
> particular way for almost two decades, reality.
>
ROTFL.
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