Messages in this thread |  | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | Subject | Re: The INN/mmap bug | Date | Tue, 19 Sep 2000 01:02:47 +0200 |
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Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Alexander Viro wrote: > > That's what makes me unhappy about the current situation + obvious > > fixes. It works, but the proof is... well, not pretty. > > Oh, agreed. I think we should clean up the code. I looked at it yesterday, > and it didn't look all that horribly bad, but I lost interest
It is horribly bad, just not unmanageably horribly bad.
> I don't know if it is worth doing before 2.4.x, as the current code certainly > should work with the small changes already proposed.
Emphatically agreed. The buffer/cache states are in need of repair, that's pretty obvious. Getting them to where they are seen to be correct will take some time and will hit a lot of code.
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