On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Nick Piggin wrote: > > No that would be great. Fingers crossed it won't cause any problems. I actually doubt it will cause problems. We made much bigger changes to ptrace support when we disallowed writing to read-only shared memory areas (we used to do the magic per-page COW thing). But if people have test-cases for ptrace and/or other magical users of access_vm_pages() (things like core-dumping comes to mind - although I think we don't dump pure file mappings at all, do we?) it would certainly be good to run any such tests on the current -git tree... Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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