From: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net>
To: Topi Miettinen <toiwoton@gmail.com>, <linux-man@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>,
Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>,
<linux-mm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mmap.2: ENOMEM possible when exceeding VA space
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2021 17:15:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20211122161524.cedefwd2t4jck5ua@jwilk.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211111180417.8382-1-toiwoton@gmail.com>
* Topi Miettinen <toiwoton@gmail.com>, 2021-11-11, 20:04:
>+.B ENOMEM
>+We don't like
>+.IR addr ,
>+because it exceeds the virtual address space of the CPU.
>+.TP
Who is "we"?
FWIW, failing with ENOMEM in this case may seem weird, but this is what
POSIX prescribes.
--
Jakub Wilk
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-11-22 16:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-11 18:04 [PATCH] mmap.2: ENOMEM possible when exceeding VA space Topi Miettinen
2021-11-22 16:15 ` Jakub Wilk [this message]
2021-11-22 17:16 ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2021-11-22 17:00 ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
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