Re: mbind and alignment

[Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>]

Hi,

Andi Kleen, le Wed 04 Apr 2007 13:52:04 +0200, a écrit :
> > So one of those should probably be done to free people from headaches:
> > 
> > - document "start" requirement in the manual page
> > - require len to be aligned too, and document the requirements in the
> >   manual page
> > - drop the "start" requirement and just round down the page + adjust
> >   size automatically.
> 
> This annoyed me in the past too. The kernel should have done that alignment
> by itself. But changing it now would be a bad idea because it would
> produce programs that run on newer kernels but break on olders.
> Documenting it is the only sane option left.

Ok. I already sent a patch to the manpages maintainer.

Samuel