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Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 16:11:18 +0400
From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] hugetlbfs private mappings.
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William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 04:59:38PM +0400, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > Hugetlbfs silently coerce private mappings of hugetlb files
> > into shared ones. So private writable mapping has MAP_SHARED
> > semantics. I think, such mappings should be disallowed.
> 
> This probably doesn't break anything worth caring about, but it may
> make people happier to just force MAP_SHARED on.

Yes, it was my initial intent. Andrew Morton pointed out, that
this could break existing applications.

Oleg.