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Subject: Re: [Xenomai] mlockall and dlopenskins?
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To: Gilles Chanteperdrix <gilles.chanteperdrix@xenomai.org>, xenomai@xenomai.org

On 09/07/2014 12:46 PM, Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:
> On 09/07/2014 06:39 PM, Yogi A. Patel wrote:
>> On 09/07/2014 12:37 PM, Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:
>>> On 09/07/2014 06:21 PM, Yogi A. Patel wrote:
>>> The section named: MLOCKALL AND STACK SIZE says: As part of its
>>> initialization, Xenomai libraries call mlockall to commit and lock the
>>> whole application memory. How can that be made more clear?
>> It might be clearer if that statement was in or referenced to by the
>> section titled "BEFORE VERSION 2.6.3".
> The documentation is meant to be used the other way around: you read the
> mlockall section, and find a link to what happened before 2.6.3.
>
> If you are interested in the exhaustive changes between versions, the
> information is available in the git logs and release announcements.
>
> For instance, version 2.6.3 announcement, here:
> http://www.xenomai.org/pipermail/xenomai/2013-October/029289.html
> says:
>
> Jan Kiszka (29):
>        Invoke mlockall on every skin library initialization
>        posix: Control auto-shadowing via environment variable
>        Remove mlockall alert handler
>        Drop --enable-dlopen, disable optimized TLS support by default
>        posix: Skip auto-shadowing if current thread is already shadowed
>
> And I find that the title of the section makes it pretty clear that this
> information concerns what happened before version 2.6.3.
Thanks for the info and pointing me to the resources, Gilles,