From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Arun Sharma <arun.sharma@google.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
rohit.seth@intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Expose SHM_HUGETLB in shmctl(id, IPC_STAT, ...)
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 23:30:18 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051111073018.GS29402@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <437406D4.4060304@google.com>
Andrew Morton wrote:
>> But then again, if it was possible to write 100 lines of userspace code, we
>> wouldn't need this capability at all. I bet if the userspace guys tried a
>> bit harder they'd work out a way of teaching their applications to remember
>> what they did.
On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 06:49:56PM -0800, Arun Sharma wrote:
> Why do we need shmctl(IPC_STAT) then? Applications should remember what
> they did :)
atime, dtime, ctime, lpid, and nattch are not "rememberable" this way.
-- wli
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-11 7:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-09 18:46 [PATCH] Expose SHM_HUGETLB in shmctl(id, IPC_STAT, ...) Arun Sharma
2005-11-10 6:22 ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-10 18:35 ` Arun Sharma
2005-11-10 19:59 ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-10 21:41 ` Arun Sharma
2005-11-10 22:06 ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-11 2:49 ` Arun Sharma
2005-11-11 3:12 ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-12 7:19 ` Michael Kerrisk
2005-11-12 7:38 ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-11 7:30 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
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