On 25 September 2017 at 14:36, Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed 20-09-17 09:25:42, Michael Kerrisk wrote: > [...] >> BUGS >> Before Linux 4.14, if old_size was zero and the mapping referred >> to by old_address was a private mapping (mmap(2) MAP_PRIVATE), >> mremap() created a new private mapping unrelated to the original >> mapping. This behavior was unintended and probably unexpected in >> user-space applications (since the intention of mremap() is to >> create a new mapping based on the original mapping). Since Linux >> 4.14, mremap() fails with the error EINVAL in this scenario. >> >> Does that seem okay? > > sorry to be late but yes this wording makes perfect sense to me. Thanks, Michal. Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
