Re: Patch (repost): cramfs memory corruption fix

Christoph Rohland (cr@sap.com)
08 Jan 2001 15:49:49 +0100


Hi Alan,

On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
> I have been thinking about this. I think we should merge the size
> limiting code with the example clean ramfs code. Having spent a
> while debugging the LFS checks and some other funnies I realised one
> problem with the ramfs in 2.4.0 as an example. It does not
> demonstrate error cases, which the new one does.

For demonstration purposes perhaps. But I do not see a lot of value of
using ramfs if shmem could do read and write.

Greetings
Christoph
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