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SubjectRe: Patch for 2.2.10 (Quelle surprise!)
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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