On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 01:06:50PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 02:01:52PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > correct, > > > http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2004-June/021592.html > > > > > > that fixes mono instead > > > > Silent breakage => bad. > > silent breakage for newly compiled buggty and non-portable code.
Executing custom code in mmap is by definition non portable, so this argument doesn't make very much sense. > > Still not nice but certainly tolerable. I strongly disagree that breaking source level compatibility silently like this is tolerable. Especially since it won't even affect most users, so most developers won't notice it, only the x86-64 users. This makes it extremly silent for most people. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
