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I'm relieved, but also somewhat befuddled that someone would write such a shocking headline. It immediately had me reaching for the lkml archives to find out w
by aa-jv 1y ago
I'm relieved, but also somewhat befuddled that someone would write such a shocking headline. It immediately had me reaching for the lkml archives to find out whats really going on.
- denotational 1y agoIn its defence, the headline says "file operation" rather than "syscall", which makes it slightly less egregious: it's referring to `mmap` as a member of `struct file_operations`.
- dooglius 1y agoThe mmap syscall operates on files so it's still very easily misinterpreted
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- commandersaki 1y agoWhich worked as intended; I first had a shock, did a double take, and realised there was nuance in file operation, read a little bit of the article and confirmed my suspicion it didn't have anything to do with the syscall.
- arp242 1y agommap is POSIX, so it's not going anywhere and you can rely on it until POSIX systems are phased out or the heat death of the universe, whichever comes sooner.