Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: [patch] jiffies wraparound [Re: 2.1.125 Show stopper list: Draft] | Date | 28 Oct 1998 03:05:20 GMT |
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Followup to: <m0zYHoB-0007UkC@the-village.bc.nu> By author: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox) In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > > cool thing to do. It's conceptually something really useful (imagine a > > > remote xload facility ;). It just doesn't work too well due to > > > nonportability issues in the file formats. > > > > > > If somebody were to send me patches like that, I would at least not flame > > > them. I flame stupidity, not fixing problems. > > Remote xload can work (although the file data is faked a bit badly for NFS > to cope). Also no patch is needed /proc/version is the parsing key ;) >
Of course, I have an rxload program on ftp.kernel.org that probably is a better solution (doesn't hang when the system is down for example), although that's probably not really relevant :)
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