Re: unregistered changes to the user<->kernel API

From: Richard Henderson (rth@redhat.com)
Date: Thu Jun 14 2001 - 13:17:56 EST


On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 07:47:57PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 10:32:49AM -0700, Richard Henderson wrote:
> > within glibc, and (2) making these accesses slower since they
> > will be considered O_DIRECT after the change.
>
> and then read/write will return -EINVAL which is life-threatening.

It would? I thought it would be ignored at minimum.

Damnit, I guess we'll have to move it after all. How
completely irritating.

r~
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