Re: Shared mmaps

[Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>]

On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Matthew Wilcox wrote:

> Sparc & IA64 use a flag in the task_struct to indicate that they're trying
> to allocate an mmap which is shared.  That's really ugly, let's just pass
> the flags in to the get_mapped_area function instead.  I had to invent a
> 
> Comments?

Looks a lot cleaner than the task->flags hack that sparc is
using at the moment...

regards,

Rik
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