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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm+eric@ccr.net>
Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>,
	masp0008@stud.uni-sb.de,
	"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: swapcache bug?
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 08:32:52 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.990209082927.32602B-100000@penguin.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1k8xs120f.fsf@flinx.ccr.net>


On 9 Feb 1999, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 
> ???  With the latter OMAGIC format everthing is page aligned already.

Yes.

However, it's a question of pride too. I don't want to break "normal" user
land applications (as opposed to things like "ifconfig" that are really
very very special), unless I really have to.

As such, I want to support even the old 1kB-aligned ZMAGIC binaries for as
long as it's not a liability, and quite frankly the issue of whether you
make the page cache "offset" be a sector or a page offset is purely a
thing of taste, not a liability.

			Linus

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  reply	other threads:[~1999-02-09 16:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-02-07 18:21 Manfred Spraul
1999-02-07 21:30 ` Eric W. Biederman
1999-02-08 16:39 ` [PATCH] " Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-02-08 17:32   ` Linus Torvalds
1999-02-08 17:51     ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-02-08 18:48       ` Linus Torvalds
1999-02-08 21:13         ` Matti Aarnio
1999-02-09  7:15         ` Eric W. Biederman
1999-02-09 16:32           ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
1999-02-10  0:28             ` Eric W. Biederman

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