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SubjectRe: Linux-2.1.125 ... pre-2.2 imminent
On Sat, 10 Oct 1998, Alan Cox wrote:

>> If you've seen any problems with the dynamic fd patch I'd appreciate a
>> bug
>> report. I've been running it for a long while now with no trouble.
>
> Once I had it above one page of file handles then funny things began to
> occur far more often with 2.1.x. I actually dumped the patch out of my
> tree about 2.1.115 or earlier. If you want to send me a current copy of
> the patch I'll reapply it and try and break it again.
>
> Right now I'm just using a vmalloc() for the file handle array which is
> a bit
> crude
>
> Alan

Hello Alan.

Do You remember? I did tell You first time I saw it, that using a custom
*inlined* allocator for this was asking for trouble and You where
wondering why. Do You understand NOW why :-)

Marcin
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In real life: System Programmer at AIS AXON GmbH


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