From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Christoph Rohland <hans-christoph.rohland@sap.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, ebiederm+eric@ccr.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] get rid of vm_private_data and win posix shm
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 17:50:48 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1230lm-0000h1-00@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <qwwd7rrgeen.fsf@sap.com> from "Christoph Rohland" at Dec 28, 99 06:32:00 pm
> I implemented posix shm with its own namespace by extending filp_open
> and do_unlink by an additional parameter for the root inode.
> Also extending this to a complete filesystem should be easy (but not
> my target).
It would seem that the best way to fix the inelegance of the patch - the
shm_open and shm_unlink syscalls, the hacks on filp_open etc would be to do
exactly that - make it a real fs, at least for open/unlink/openddir/readdir
even if not for read/write
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-12-28 17:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-12-28 17:32 Christoph Rohland
1999-12-28 17:50 ` Alan Cox [this message]
1999-12-28 18:38 ` Christoph Rohland
[not found] ` <199912281914.LAA02201@penguin.transmeta.com>
1999-12-28 20:48 ` Christoph Rohland
1999-12-31 16:58 ` [PATCH] get rid of vm_private_data and win posix shm version 2 Christoph Rohland
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