Re: [PATCH] mm: msync: require either MS_ASYNC or MS_SYNC

[chrubis]

Hi!
> > and there's no good
> > reason to believe that this behavior would have persisted
> > indefinitely.
> > 
> > The msync(2) man page (as currently written in man-pages.git) is
> > silent on the behavior if both flags are unset, so this change should
> > not break an application written by somone who carefully reads the
> > Linux man pages or the POSIX spec.
> 
> Sadly, people do not always carefully read man pages, so there
> remains the chance that a change like this will break applications.
> Aside from standards conformance, what do you see as the benefit
> of the change?

I've looked around Linux Test Project and this change will break a few
testcases, but nothing that couldn't be easily fixed.

The rest of the world may be more problematic though.

-- 
Cyril Hrubis
chrubis@xxxxxxx
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