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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [take5 0/4] kevent: Generic event handling mechanism.
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From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 23:57:18 -0700

> For exec (where a file descriptor might survive) we likely need a
> mechanism to mmap the ring buffer only based on the file descriptor.
> I'm not sure about this, though.

Unless we can come up with a serious legitimate use for this, I think
we can forego it for now.