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From: Adam Langley <agl@google.com>
To: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>,
	linux-man@vger.kernel.org, Adam Langley <alangley@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] madvise.2: MADV_WIPEONFORK affects semantics
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 06:47:14 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAL9PXLyFdHT1tiUKGcet-e8yC6xfO5A54zN6sfO4NA4q0ovy7g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200428180942.qwjjmp2e5sbx3opn@jwilk.net>

On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 11:09 AM Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net> wrote:
> This sentence is in the "Conventional advice value" subsection, which
> defines only MADV_NORMAL, MADV_RANDOM, MADV_SEQUENTIAL, MADV_WILLNEED,
> and MADV_DONTNEED.
>
> MADV_WIPEONFORK is defined in the "Linux-specific advice values"
> subsection, which already notes that "some of these operations change
> the semantics of memory accesses". (Perhaps s/some/most/ would be better
> wording.)

Ah, thank you! Now that I look with that in mind, it makes sense.


AGL

      parent reply	other threads:[~2020-04-29 13:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-28 17:40 [PATCH] madvise.2: MADV_WIPEONFORK affects semantics agl
2020-04-28 18:09 ` Jakub Wilk
2020-04-29  6:09   ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-04-29 13:47   ` Adam Langley [this message]

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