Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 20 Mar 2004 11:22:41 +0100 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: finding out the value of HZ from userspace |
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On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 10:38:03AM +1100, Peter Williams wrote: > >there is one. Nothing uses it > >(sysconf() provides this info) > > Seems to me that it would be fairly trivial to modify those programs > (that should use this mechanism but don't) to use it? So why should > they be allowed to dictate kernel behaviour?
quality of implementation; for example shell scripts that want to do echo 500 > /proc/sys/foo/bar/something_in_HZ ... or /etc/sysctl.conf or ...
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