Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:44:39 +0300
From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Gregory Haskins <gregory.haskins@gmail.com>
Cc: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>, avi@redhat.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mtosatti@redhat.com,
       paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, markmc@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] pass write value to in_range pointers
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On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 12:04:06AM -0400, Gregory Haskins wrote:
> >>  It will also need to support
> >> multiple matches.
> >>     
> >
> > What, signal many fds on the same address/value pair?
> > I see this as a bug. Why is this a good thing to support?
> > Just increases the chance of leaking this fd.
> >   
> 
> I believe Avi asked for this feature specifically, so I will defer to him.

Hmm. That's hard to implement in my model. Avi, can we give up
this feature? I don't think anyone needs this specifically ...

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