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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Really good idea to allow mmap(0, FIXED)?
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 22:58:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1160085480.1607.32.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200610052059.11714.mb@bu3sch.de>

Ar Iau, 2006-10-05 am 20:59 +0200, ysgrifennodd Michael Buesch:
> Is is really a good idea to allow processes to remap something
> to address 0?

It is very useful indeed. Consider for example dosemu.

> Besides that, I currently don't see a valid reason to mmap address 0.
> 
> Comments?

User zero is not neccessarily mapped at kernel zero so your argument
isn't portable either.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-10-05 21:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-05 18:59 Really good idea to allow mmap(0, FIXED)? Michael Buesch
2006-10-05 19:50 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-10-06 14:40   ` Michael Buesch
2006-10-05 21:58 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2006-10-06 14:44   ` Michael Buesch
2006-10-07 11:23     ` Pavel Machek
2006-10-05 23:55 ` David Wagner
2006-10-06  4:34   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-10-06  5:39   ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-10-06 19:47     ` David Wagner
2006-10-06  7:25   ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-10-06 10:36     ` Mikael Pettersson
2006-10-06 11:20       ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-10-06 19:43     ` David Wagner
2006-10-08  0:22       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-10-08  2:03         ` David Wagner
2006-10-08 19:18         ` Michael Buesch
2006-10-06 14:55 ` Michael Buesch

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