On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 18:53, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
>
> > O_DIRECT is allow to break if someone does something silly :) [...]
>
> to DMA into a page that does not belong to the process anymore? I doubt
> that.
Try doing a truncate on a file as an O_DIRECT write is occuring.
Scribbling into pages you dont own is the least of your problems.
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