Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262418AbUCLTP0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Mar 2004 14:15:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262422AbUCLTPL (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Mar 2004 14:15:11 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:12440 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262418AbUCLTOx (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Mar 2004 14:14:53 -0500 Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 14:14:35 -0500 (EST) From: Rik van Riel X-X-Sender: riel@chimarrao.boston.redhat.com To: Chris Friesen cc: Linus Torvalds , Andrea Arcangeli , Hugh Dickins , Ingo Molnar , Andrew Morton , , William Lee Irwin III Subject: Re: anon_vma RFC2 In-Reply-To: <40520B2E.3010806@nortelnetworks.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 785 Lines: 22 On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Chris Friesen wrote: > I'm just thinking of the "fork 100000 kids to test 32-bit pids" sort of > test cases. Try that with a process that takes up 2GB of address space ;) It won't work now and it'll fail for the same reasons with the scheme I proposed. Probably before the 2^44 bits of space run out, too. -- "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan - 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/