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Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 12:03:55 -0700
From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
To: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.5.43-mm2] New shared page table patch
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>> 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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