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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Arun Sharma <arun.sharma@google.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	rohit.seth@intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Expose SHM_HUGETLB in shmctl(id, IPC_STAT, ...)
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 23:30:18 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051111073018.GS29402@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <437406D4.4060304@google.com>

Andrew Morton wrote:
>> But then again, if it was possible to write 100 lines of userspace code, we
>> wouldn't need this capability at all.  I bet if the userspace guys tried a
>> bit harder they'd work out a way of teaching their applications to remember
>> what they did.

On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 06:49:56PM -0800, Arun Sharma wrote:
> Why do we need shmctl(IPC_STAT) then? Applications should remember what 
> they did :)

atime, dtime, ctime, lpid, and nattch are not "rememberable" this way.


-- wli

      parent reply	other threads:[~2005-11-11  7:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-09 18:46 [PATCH] Expose SHM_HUGETLB in shmctl(id, IPC_STAT, ...) Arun Sharma
2005-11-10  6:22 ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-10 18:35   ` Arun Sharma
2005-11-10 19:59     ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-10 21:41       ` Arun Sharma
2005-11-10 22:06         ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-11  2:49           ` Arun Sharma
2005-11-11  3:12             ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-12  7:19               ` Michael Kerrisk
2005-11-12  7:38                 ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-11  7:30             ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]

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