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From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 01/15] preparation:
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Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 08:12:28 +0200
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Carsten Otte wrote:
> Avi Kivity wrote:
>> Well, dup_mm() can't work (and now that I think about it, for more 
>> reasons -- what if the process has threads?).
> We lock out multithreaded users already, -EINVAL.
>

Would be much better if this can be avoided.  It's surprising.

-- 
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