On 01/28/2014 02:14 PM, Kay Sievers wrote: >> >> But yes, alternatively classic systems may be able to get around the >> issues via tmpfs quotas and convincing applications to use O_TMPFILE >> there. But to me this seems less ideal then the Android approach, where >> the lifecycle of the tmpfs fds more limited and clear. > > Tmpfs supports no quota, it's all a huge hole and unsafe in that > regard on every system today. But ashmem and kdbus, as they are today, > are not better. > We can fix that aspect in tmpfs. Creating new file objcts outside of filesystems really doesn't make things any better, since our toolbox around this stuff largely revolves around filesystems. -hpa -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>