Re: [PATCH] Install kernel-page-flags.h

[Ulrich Drepper]

On 03/14/2012 03:58 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> I don't think this is a good idea at all.  Let's shoot the person who
> added that braindead interface ASAP, and replace it with one printing
> the flags in ASCII format.

This isn't really realistic.  The information is retrieved based on the 
PFN using lseek+read from a file descriptor.  How is the read supposed 
to work in case the record returned is not of a fixed size?  Aside, 
potentially a lot of these records are to be read and using ASCII 
strings will significantly slow things down.

If you have a concrete proposal please go ahead and propose it.
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