From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail.ccr.net (ccr@alogconduit1ae.ccr.net [208.130.159.5]) by kvack.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id BAA25993 for ; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 01:43:25 -0500 Subject: Re: Why don't shared anonymous mappings work? References: <199901061523.IAA14788@nyx10.nyx.net> From: ebiederm+eric@ccr.net (Eric W. Biederman) Date: 06 Jan 1999 23:55:03 -0600 In-Reply-To: ebiederm+eric@ccr.net's message of "06 Jan 1999 13:51:00 -0600" Message-ID: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Colin Plumb , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: And of course the last reason I just thought of, which is probably the real reason. Currenlty anonymous pages if the are writable are assumed to have exactly one mapping, or if it is in the swap cache the page is assumed to be read only. So reusing the swap inode could be a real problem. Eric -- This is a majordomo managed list. To unsubscribe, send a message with the body 'unsubscribe linux-mm me@address' to: majordomo@kvack.org