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Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 11:17:56 -0700
From: Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
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Subject: Re: unregistered changes to the user<->kernel API
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On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 07:47:57PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 10:32:49AM -0700, Richard Henderson wrote:
> > within glibc, and (2) making these accesses slower since they
> > will be considered O_DIRECT after the change.
> 
> and then read/write will return -EINVAL which is life-threatening.

It would?  I thought it would be ignored at minimum. 

Damnit, I guess we'll have to move it after all.  How
completely irritating.


r~