Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 28 Mar 2004 13:16:40 +0100 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: finding out the value of HZ from userspace |
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Peter Williams wrote: > >>Making HZ == USER_HZ would also solve the problem. > > > >Making them equal now would reintroduce the problem that USER_HZ was > >created to resolve: some userspace programs hard-code the value, so it > >cannot be changed in interfaces used by those programs. > > That was the wrong solution to that particular problem. The programs > should have been fixed rather than the kernel being maimed to > accommodate their shortcomings.
I agree, and perhaps that should still be done so we can eliminate USER_HZ.
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