Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758796AbXFITKp (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Jun 2007 15:10:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757056AbXFITKg (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Jun 2007 15:10:36 -0400 Received: from waste.org ([66.93.16.53]:39923 "EHLO waste.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752998AbXFITKf (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Jun 2007 15:10:35 -0400 Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2007 14:10:10 -0500 From: Matt Mackall To: Bernd Schmidt Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , David Howells , "Wu, Bryan" Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFD]: Unbreak no-mmu mmap Message-ID: <20070609191010.GB11166@waste.org> References: <46695F6D.5050600@t-online.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <46695F6D.5050600@t-online.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 677 Lines: 16 On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 03:53:49PM +0200, Bernd Schmidt wrote: > 2. It is no longer possible to get blocks smaller than a page through > mmap. This behaviour was used by simplemalloc, which is an insane > way of implementing malloc on nommu systems and hopefully not used > by anyone anymore. That's worrisome. Breaking existing apps/libraries seems like a bad idea. -- Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time. - 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/