From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 13:51:23 -0800 (PST) From: Paul Jackson Subject: RE: [Lse-tech] [rfc][api] Shared Memory Binding In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: "Luck, Tony" Cc: colpatch@us.ibm.com, "Martin J. Bligh" , Michael Hohnbaum , lse-tech@lists.sourceforge.net, Andrew Morton , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Luck, Tony wrote: > Why tie this to the sysV ipc shm mechanism? Couldn't you make > a more general "mmbind()" call that applies to a "start, len" > range of virtual addresses? I'll second that motion. Presumably this could work on any range of pages, using the kernel routines to split vmareas as need be. -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson 1.650.933.1373 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org