Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 Nov 2005 23:30:18 -0800 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Expose SHM_HUGETLB in shmctl(id, IPC_STAT, ...) |
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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.
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