From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 9 Nov 2002 11:30:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 9 Nov 2002 11:30:09 -0500 Received: from dell-paw-3.cambridge.redhat.com ([195.224.55.237]:59128 "EHLO passion.cambridge.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 9 Nov 2002 11:30:08 -0500 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 13/07/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 From: David Woodhouse X-Accept-Language: en_GB In-Reply-To: References: To: Linus Torvalds Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: RFC: mmap(PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED) fails if !writepage. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2002 16:36:49 +0000 Message-ID: <27126.1036859809@passion.cambridge.redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org dwmw2@infradead.org said: > Suggested patch below.... or should I just hack fsx-linux to use > MAP_PRIVATE for its readonly mappings and ignore it? torvalds@transmeta.com said: > You have two choices: make gratuitous changes to the kernel to make > some random test happy, or fix the test. > I think you should fix the test. The kernel change buys you _zero_ new > features. Works for me. Thanks for the answer. -- dwmw2