Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 09:55:39 -0700 From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> Cc: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MADV_SEQUENTIAL and GNU Grep Message-ID: <199907291655.JAA29585@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>
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On Fri, 30 Jul 1999 01:50:28 +0900
"Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> wrote:
> Could you please elaborate on "permanent"? To what structure the
> information is currently attached, and what, if anything, can make
> that structure "go away", short of a reboot?
As permanent as the object ... i.e. as long as the object persists.
> Of course, we could MADV_NORMAL afterwards, though that would
> require changing more than one character. I'm not sure I'm ready for
> so much coding... :-)
No, it's not appropriate to work around a kernel bug in this fashion.
-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
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