Re: [PATCH ] VMSPLIT config options (with default config fixed)

[J.A. Magallon]

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On Sat, 04 Feb 2006 08:57:23 -0500, Mark Lord <lkml@xxxxxx> wrote:

> Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >
> > What userspace programs do depend on it?
>=20
> That *is* the question, isn't it.
> We simply don't know, other than that this is
> a visible change to any program that cares.
>=20
> Gratuitis breakage of userspace is pointless.
>=20
> Empirically speaking, everything I use is working fine
> here with the 2G/2G split, but that's just not good enough
> reason to mindlessly break other people's userspace.
>=20

The only thing I have seen that depends explicitely on this setting
is valgrind, but I think that CVS included some kind of runtime
configuration/selection.

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Mandriva Linux release 2006.1 (Cooker) for i586
Linux 2.6.15-jam8 (gcc 4.0.2 (4.0.2-1mdk for Mandriva Linux release 2006.1))

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