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Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 12:35:27 +0300
From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
To: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH, v3] shmat: introduce flag SHM_MAP_NOT_FIXED
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On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 10:57:21AM +0200, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
> Kirill,
>=20
> On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 6:15 PM, Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>=
 wrote:
> > If SHM_MAP_NOT_FIXED specified and shmaddr is not NULL, then the kernel=
 takes
> > shmaddr as a hint about where to place the mapping. The address of the =
mapping
> > is returned as the result of the call.
> >
> > It's similar to mmap() without MAP_FIXED.
>=20
> Please CC linux-api@vger.kernel.org on patches that change the
> kernel-userspace interface.

Ok, I will.

--=20
Regards,  Kirill A. Shutemov
 + Belarus, Minsk
 + ALT Linux Team, http://www.altlinux.com/

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