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From: Christoph Rohland <cr@sap.com>
To: Dave Gilbert <gilbertd@treblig.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Patch] shmmin behaviour back to 2.2 behaviour
Date: 27 Dec 2000 16:37:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3r92tancw.fsf@linux.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10012271156200.2753-100000@tardis.home.dave>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10012271156200.2753-100000@tardis.home.dave>

Dave Gilbert <gilbertd@treblig.org> writes:

>   I think I've come to the conclusion that Xine does not in the case
> I've found, rely on this - it is a separate bug related to Xv
> telling xine that it needs 0 bytes.

Yes, but this bug did not show on 2.2. It simply failed in shmget.

Probably it makes more sense to fail on creation of zero byte segments
and getting existing ones with zero length being legal... (The latter
is needed). That's what the patch does.

Greetings
                Christoph

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  reply	other threads:[~2000-12-27 16:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-12-27 10:32 [Patch] shmmin behaviour back to 2.2 behaviour Christoph Rohland
2000-12-27 11:58 ` Dave Gilbert
2000-12-27 15:37   ` Christoph Rohland [this message]
2000-12-27 15:16 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2000-12-27 17:54   ` Christoph Rohland
2000-12-27 20:57   ` Andries Brouwer
2000-12-28 12:01     ` Christoph Rohland
2000-12-28 13:34       ` Andries Brouwer
2000-12-28 15:49         ` Alan Cox
2000-12-28 22:13           ` Christoph Rohland
2000-12-28 22:19             ` Alan Cox

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