MAP_NORESERVE with MAP_SHARED

From: David Mosberger (davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com)
Date: Fri Jul 12 2002 - 15:39:49 EST

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Is there a good reason why the MAP_NORESERVE flag is ignored when
MAP_SHARED is specified? (Hint: it's the call to vm_enough_memory()
in shmem_file_setup() that's causing MAP_NORESERVE to be ignored.)

--david

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