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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Expose SHM_HUGETLB in shmctl(id, IPC_STAT, ...)
Andrew Morton wrote:
>> But then again, if it was possible to write 100 lines of userspace code, we
>> wouldn't need this capability at all. I bet if the userspace guys tried a
>> bit harder they'd work out a way of teaching their applications to remember
>> what they did.

On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 06:49:56PM -0800, Arun Sharma wrote:
> Why do we need shmctl(IPC_STAT) then? Applications should remember what
> they did :)

atime, dtime, ctime, lpid, and nattch are not "rememberable" this way.


-- wli
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