Re: [PATCH 2.5.43-mm2] New shared page table patch

From: Gerrit Huizenga (gh@us.ibm.com)
Date: Tue Oct 22 2002 - 14:27:57 EST


In message <20021022145510.H20957@redhat.com>, > : Benjamin LaHaise writes:
> On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 11:47:37AM -0700, Gerrit Huizenga wrote:
> > Hmm. Isn't it great that 2.6/3.0 will be stable soon and we can
> > start working on this for 2.7/3.1?
>
> Sure, but we should delete the syscalls now and just use the filesystem
> as the intermediate API.
>
> -ben

That would be fine with me - we are only planning on people using
flags to shm*() or mmap(), not on the syscalls. I thought Oracle
was the one heavily dependent on the icky syscalls.

gerrit
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