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Re: [PATCH v2] [BZ #10283] localedef: align fixed maps to SHMLBA
- From: David Miller <davem at davemloft dot net>
- To: roland at hack dot frob dot com
- Cc: carlos at redhat dot com, vapier at gentoo dot org, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 18:07:41 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] [BZ #10283] localedef: align fixed maps to SHMLBA
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From: Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com>
Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 16:14:03 -0700 (PDT)
> Otherwise MAP_FIXED is essentially useless for anything other than
> overwriting an existing mapping, and that means that the Linux
> implementations on some machines are nonconforming.
I like to use another term for something which has behaved in a
particular way for almost two decades, reality.