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From: "Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)" <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
To: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net>, Topi Miettinen <toiwoton@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>,
	linux-mm@vger.kernel.org, linux-man@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mmap.2: ENOMEM possible when exceeding VA space
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2021 18:16:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e4c2be0f-d9c6-82b6-08ea-94aa09b2ae99@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211122161524.cedefwd2t4jck5ua@jwilk.net>

Hi Jakub,

On 11/22/21 17:15, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> * 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"?

I was going to ask the same, but that page already describes other 
errors like that.  If only for consistency, and avoiding a complete 
rewrite of that ERRORS section, I applied the patch as is.

But yes, "we" doesn't sound like very technical.  Maybe we should fix this.

> 
> FWIW, failing with ENOMEM in this case may seem weird, but this is what 
> POSIX prescribes.
> 

Thanks,
Alex


-- 
Alejandro Colomar
Linux man-pages comaintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/

  reply	other threads:[~2021-11-22 17:17 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
2021-11-22 17:16   ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) [this message]
2021-11-22 17:00 ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)

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