Quoting Pekka Enberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On 1/10/07, Serge E. Hallyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >But since it looks like you just munmap the region now, shouldn't a > >subsequent munmap by the app just return -EINVAL? that seems appropriate > >to me. > > Applications don't know about revoke and neither should they. > Therefore close(2) and munmap(2) must work the same way they would for > non-revoked inodes so that applications can release resources > properly. > > Pekka
Right, but is returning -EINVAL to userspace on munmap a problem? It may not have been expected before, but it shouldn't break anything... Thanks for the tw other patches - I'll give them a shot and check out current munmap behavior just as soon as I get a chance. thanks, -serge - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/