Re: [PATCH, RFD]: Unbreak no-mmu mmap

Mike Frysinger
2007-06-11T22:09:40Z

On 6/9/07, Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 03:53:49PM +0200, Bernd Schmidt wrote:
> > 2. It is no longer possible to get blocks smaller than a page through
> > mmap. This behaviour was used by simplemalloc, which is an insane
> > way of implementing malloc on nommu systems and hopefully not used
> > by anyone anymore.
>
> That's worrisome. Breaking existing apps/libraries seems like a bad
> idea.

it isnt breaking anything ... simplemalloc() will continue to execute
in newer kernels
-mike