Re: What was wrong with merge-mem?

Rik van Riel (riel@imladris.surriel.com)
Mon, 24 Feb 2003 12:56:34 -0300 (BRT)


On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, thefly wrote:

> i'm planning to port merge-mem to 2.4/2.5, i've started
> designing the whole stuff, but what i miss is what was wrong with the
> previous attempt. I googled the past posts but could'nt find much about
> it, just someone who reports security problems that i don't share.

I don't think there's anything wrong with mergemem. Porting
it to be free of SMP races might be hairy, but it should work.

Rik

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