Re: Shared mappings not being inherited by children

[Agustina Arzille]

On 04/03/2016 06:27 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> So the fix would be just to remove the whole
>    if ((flags & (MAP_TYPE|MAP_INHERIT)) == MAP_ANON
> block?

Yes, that seems do the trick.

> You can submit that patch to the libc-alpha@sourceware.org mailing list
> (explaining the rationale etc. alongside), putting roland@hack.frob.com
> and this bug-hurd@gnu.org list in Cc.  And we can commit the patch to
> the debian libc in parallel.
>
> Samuel

Done. Although, I had to use a different mail address for Roland, because
bugzilla wouldn't let me otherwise. Oh well, hope it isn't an issue.

Anyway, here's the bug report for glibc:

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19903