Re: [PATCH 2.5.43-mm2] New shared page table patch

Martin J. Bligh (mbligh@aracnet.com)
Tue, 22 Oct 2002 12:03:55 -0700


>> Have you reviewed the hugetlbfs and hugetlbpage-backed-shm patches?
>>
>> That code is still requiring CAP_IPC_LOCK, although I suspect it
>> would be better to allow hugetlbfs mmap to be purely administered
>> by file permissions.
>
> Can we delete the specialty syscalls now?

I was lead to believe that Linus designed them, so he may be emotionally attatched
to them, but I think there would be few others that would cry over the loss ...

M.

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