From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
To: Jon Masters <jonathan@jonmasters.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] - support inheritance of mlocks across fork/exec V2
Cc: kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>,
       linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, riel@redhat.com,
       hugh@veritas.com
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> On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 14:04 -0500, Lee Schermerhorn wrote:
> 
> > Add support for mlockall(MCL_INHERIT|MCL_RECURSIVE):
> 
> FWIW, I really liked this patch series. And I think there is still value
> in a generic "mlock" wrapper utility that I can use. Sure, the later on
> containers suggestions are all wonderful in theory but I don't see that
> that went anywhere either (and I disagree that we can't trust people to
> use this right without doing silly things) - if I'm really right that
> this got dropped on the floor, can we resurrect it in .31 please?

I guess Lee is really really busy now.
Can you make V3 patch instead?


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