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Patching until the COWs come home (part 2)

Patching until the COWs come home (part 2)

Posted Mar 26, 2021 4:05 UTC (Fri) by alkbyby (subscriber, #61687)
Parent article: Patching until the COWs come home (part 2)

I wonder if there is anything out there actually using vmsplice. It seems extremely hard to use facility anyways. And playing games with MMU with all the evil lock contention troubles, seems like asking for trouble as well.


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Patching until the COWs come home (part 2)

Posted Mar 26, 2021 7:04 UTC (Fri) by pbonzini (subscriber, #60935) [Link]

See the comments in part 1. The main users are FUSE and the AF_ALG crypto API.


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