Re: [PATCH, v3] shmat: introduce flag SHM_MAP_NOT_FIXED

From: Kirill A. Shutemov
Date: Wed Oct 08 2008 - 05:35:01 EST


On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 10:57:21AM +0200, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
> Kirill,
>
> On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 6:15 PM, Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > If SHM_MAP_NOT_FIXED specified and shmaddr is not NULL, then the kernel takes
> > shmaddr as a hint about where to place the mapping. The address of the mapping
> > is returned as the result of the call.
> >
> > It's similar to mmap() without MAP_FIXED.
>
> Please CC linux-api@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on patches that change the
> kernel-userspace interface.

Ok, I will.

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