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Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 15:28:16 +0200 (CEST)
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Anirban Sinha <ani@anirban.org>
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Subject: Re: futex question
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Can you please fix your mail client to do proper line breaks at around
78 chars ?

On Mon, 5 Oct 2009, Anirban Sinha wrote:
>
> We need to clear those pointers regardless. After the exceve(), the
> address values are meaningless under the new mm context.

That's out of question. We just need to come to a decision whether we
silently clean up callers dumbness or not.

Thanks,

	tglx