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

[Alan Cox]

> > kernel is not to provide nappies for people who think programming is too
> > hard but to provide services that can be used to build applications.
> 
> Outsourcing kernel locking to user space is not the way to go.

You mean like say flock, O_APPEND  ...

Putting stuff in user space is good, it means we don't carry tons of
never used app specific crap in the kernel, in every users kernel,
unpageable and basically unused.

Alan
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