Bug#394392: Alternative msync() fix for 2.6.18?

2006-12-26 Thread Hugh Dickins
On Tue, 26 Dec 2006, Hugh Dickins wrote: > On Tue, 26 Dec 2006, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > > > The first message at http://bugs.debian.org/394392 contains some > > information about it, but I'm sure Jeff Licquia (CCed) can provide > > more information if necessa

Bug#394392: Alternative msync() fix for 2.6.18?

2006-12-26 Thread Hugh Dickins
On Tue, 26 Dec 2006, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Hugh Dickins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-12-26 13:12]: > > Could you point us to a description (or testcase) showing how the > > 2.6.18 kernel's msync() is not LSB 3.1 compliant? Fixing that might > > well be a better

Bug#394392: Alternative msync() fix for 2.6.18?

2006-12-26 Thread Hugh Dickins
On Tue, 26 Dec 2006, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > We in Debian have applied your "mm: msync() cleanup" patch (plus the > other mm changes needed for this one) to our 2.6.18 kernel because > it's needed for LSB 3.1 compliance. Given that apparently no fix for > the induced filesystem corruption is