On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 01:26:53AM -0200, Eduardo Habkost wrote: > > I think we need not be purists here. Most people don't lose power and > > then it's fine and compatible. People who want more robustness need to > > use more modern kernels, that is all. > > I don't think that's being purist.
Right I thought that you want to prevent kernel running this on old kernels. Why it's nice to stay up to date this flag was not backported into stable kernels so many users can't really update. > I want to avoid hidden bugs Makes total sense, I posted a proposal. > if we ignore that MAP_SYNC failed for any unexpected reason. If > we need to ignore errors in some cases, let's at least limit that > to cases where we absolutely have to. > > But I would also be happy with just a warning. > > -- > Eduardo
