Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264825AbUD1Ovw (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Apr 2004 10:51:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264818AbUD1Ovw (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Apr 2004 10:51:52 -0400 Received: from mail.jambit.com ([62.245.207.83]:44305 "EHLO mail.jambit.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264802AbUD1Ovv (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Apr 2004 10:51:51 -0400 From: "Michael Kerrisk" Illegal-Object: Syntax error in To: address found on vger.kernel.org: To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org ^-missing end of address Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 16:50:26 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: remap_file_pages() + MAP_PRIVATE? Cc: Jamie Lokier Message-ID: <408FE0D2.24249.1C002B2@localhost> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.12a) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body To: unlisted-recipients:; (no To-header on input) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 501 Lines: 15 Gidday, As currently implemented, the mapping given to remap_file_pages() must be MAP_SHARED. Is there some reason why the kernel enforces the restriction that we can't apply this call to MAP_PRIVATE mappings? (I can't see one...) Cheers, Michael - 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/