Re: [PATCH, RFD]: Unbreak no-mmu mmap

[Mike Frysinger]

On 6/9/07, Matt Mackall <mpm@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 03:53:49PM +0200, Bernd Schmidt wrote:
> > 2. It is no longer possible to get blocks smaller than a page through
> >    mmap.  This behaviour was used by simplemalloc, which is an insane
> >    way of implementing malloc on nommu systems and hopefully not used
> >    by anyone anymore.
>
> That's worrisome. Breaking existing apps/libraries seems like a bad
> idea.

it isnt breaking anything ... simplemalloc() will continue to execute
in newer kernels
-mike
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