Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: sysconf (was Re: RLIM_INFINITY inconsistency between archs) | Date | Mon, 31 Jul 2000 19:06:12 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> Also because Linus' way happens to be the right way.
Probably not entirely. The balance IMHO is in the middle somewhere
> I don't know why you won't accept that; it certainly seems extremely > obvious to most people who seem to know what they're doing.
No
Some of these things like maximum groups are used by applications and you do want to be able to pull it out of the kernel. Others like number of cpus being done by parsing /proc/cpuinfo seem fine to me. Its not a common or critical path and if it ever becomes an issue it can be fixed later
HZ is complicated. Its used by some apps to guess what sort of delay pattern to use - notably games/multimedia but since HZ is a constant and the whole regular timer tick model is broken for a large scalable system (post 2.4 issue!) its not worth fixing
Alan
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