Quoting Pekka Enberg ([email protected]):
> On 1/10/07, Serge E. Hallyn <[email protected]> wrote:
> >But since it looks like you just munmap the region now, shouldn't a
> >subsequent munmap by the app just return -EINVAL? that seems appropriate
> >to me.
>
> Applications don't know about revoke and neither should they.
> Therefore close(2) and munmap(2) must work the same way they would for
> non-revoked inodes so that applications can release resources
> properly.
>
> Pekka
Right, but is returning -EINVAL to userspace on munmap a problem?
It may not have been expected before, but it shouldn't break
anything...
Thanks for the tw other patches - I'll give them a shot and check
out current munmap behavior just as soon as I get a chance.
thanks,
-serge
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