Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 21 Oct 1998 08:30:16 +0200 | | From | Andi Kleen <> | | Subject | Re: [patch] jiffies wraparound [Re: 2.1.125 Show stopper list: Draft] |
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On Wed, Oct 21, 1998 at 03:34:57AM +0200, David S. Miller wrote: > I do agree however that all of these sort of items should be unified > into one sysconf() interface. We were just lucky on Sparc and > inherited the system call from SunOS etc.
I think read-only sysctls are doing this fine. glibc has to implement a sysconf wrapper for various reasons anyways, and then it can just call sysctl(2). Another advantage is that it doesn't add any new code to the kernel, just a few small sysctl table entries (and if that is not enough sysctl is flexible enough to support arbitary functions)
-Andi
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