Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 3 Jul 1999 20:24:35 +0100 (BST) | From | Alex Buell <> | Subject | Re: Patch for 2.2.10 (Quelle surprise!) |
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On Sat, 3 Jul 1999, Mitchell Blank Jr wrote:
> 1. Before you post a patch, you should remove the files that are generated > by the build process (.version,.depend,include/linux/version.h) or > it won't apply cleanly.
OK, noted.
> 2. Your API seems to assume that all processors in an SMP system are > identical. Hardly very flexible.
I have yet to see a SMP system using different processors. Have you?
> 3. Based on Linus's comments about adding sysconf/pathconf/fpathconf [ snip ] > If you think parsing /proc/cpuinfo is too hard to do in each program, > look into adding that functionality to libproc.
*What* kernel bloat? Old kernel is 534902 bytes, this kernel is 535098 bytes. Hardly bloat. And I bet I could improve on that.
SunOS implements something very similar for its kernel. I do not like the /proc system. I would rather see it binned and syscalls used instead.
Cheers, Alex --
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