RE: [linuxsh-dev] Different old_mmap behavior in 2.4.5 and 2.4.8

[Bao C. H. <ba...@se...>]

> 
> >  Is this supposed to be the correct area?  What changes 
> make the newer
> > kernels to return different pointers? 
> 
> Looking at the numbers, I'd be inclined to guess that it's 
> moved due to
> cache aliasing. And hence that it's not very likely to get 'fixed'. 
> 
Either the sh4 kernel has to be fixed, or linuxthread has to be fixed.
MAP_FIXED was removed from linuxthreads sometimes earlier this year.
Any serious applications using linuxthreads will exhibit the same
problem.

Bao