Re: [PATCH, RFC, v2] shmat: introduce flag SHM_MAP_HINT

[Kirill A. Shutemov]

On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 01:26:31PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > I want say that we shouldn't do this check if shmaddr is a search hint.
> > I'm not sure that check is unneeded if shmadd is the exact address.
> 
> mmap should fail in this case because it does the same check for 
> MAP_FIXED. Obviously it cannot succeed when there is already something
> else there.

We can do it in separate patch, I think.

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