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Old 19th February 2014
thirdm thirdm is offline
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Perhaps this is what you were remembering...
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The #1 reason why the Linux team has not commited this by default
is because it breaks Wine, which wants to play with page 0 -- so
basically they are resisting this for Windows binary compatibility
Ironic, isn't it? If anyone else tells you that is not the #1
reason, they are lying. We decided we don't care about Wine.
http://lwn.net/Articles/360312/
... but here is the suggestion that perhaps allowing processes to map their own zero page isn't really required except for Wine's DOS emulator (and if you need DOS there are better solutions than Wine)...

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp..../match=openbsd
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