Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 7 Nov 1999 13:19:18 -0500 (EST) | From | Vladimir Dergachev <> | Subject | dynamic system information page (comments ?) |
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What do people think of the following idea:
dedicate one page to (some) system information, so that later programs can mmap it and have (read-only) inexpensive access to this information.
The stuff that I can think right away would be useful in this page are current time information, time since interrupt (for xserver for example), available ram/swap..
This way a program can have, for example, cheap timestamps by simply copying the data from mmaped device to whatever place it needs the timestamp in.
Comments ??
Vladimir Dergachev
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