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Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 18:25:12 +0100
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On Fri, 2008-12-05 at 16:32 -0800, Edward Estabrook wrote:
> > Well, UIO already rapes the mmap interface by using the "offset" parameter to
> > pass in the number of the mapping.
> 
> Exactly.

Had I known about it then, I'd NAK'd it, but I guess now that its
already merged changing it will be hard :/

Also, having done something bad in the past doesn't mean you can
continue doing the wrong thing.