Re: [PATCH] cowlinks v2

Jörn Engel
2004-04-05T09:18:59Z

On Mon, 5 April 2004 03:15:01 -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> I know a writable mmap needs to trigger a copy in that case.
> And then are fun cases with MAP_FIXED which may mean invalidation
> is not allowed.

Sounds fishy, so it will trigger cow. Done. :)

> As scheme that does not isolate the invalidate to the new copy worries me.

If you can come up with a better way, please do. Right now I cannot
think of anything better, but Pavel already showed how little that
means.

Jörn

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