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From: Gerrit Huizenga <gh@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.5.43-mm2] New shared page table patch 
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In message <20021022145510.H20957@redhat.com>, > : Benjamin LaHaise writes:
> On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 11:47:37AM -0700, Gerrit Huizenga wrote:
> > Hmm.  Isn't it great that 2.6/3.0 will be stable soon and we can
> > start working on this for 2.7/3.1?
> 
> Sure, but we should delete the syscalls now and just use the filesystem 
> as the intermediate API.
> 
> 		-ben

That would be fine with me - we are only planning on people using
flags to shm*() or mmap(), not on the syscalls.  I thought Oracle
was the one heavily dependent on the icky syscalls.

gerrit
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