Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Nov 2005 11:09:38 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/3] NOMMU: Provide shared-writable mmap support on ramfs |
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On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, David Howells wrote: > > (3) Not permitting a file to be shrunk if it would truncate any shared > mappings (private mappings are copied).
Why?
Truncate is _supposed_ to get rid of any shared mmap stuff.
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