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SubjectRe: [patch] my latest oom stuff
On Thu, 5 Nov 1998, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:

>Andrea, would you --- and everybody else who touches sysctl.h: *PLEASE*
>read the comments at the top of that file, and fix your patch.

I have to say that the change was pretty intentional. And btw I don' t
think that there are many software that uses the SWAP sysctl(2) ;-). These
sysctls are used mainly by sysadm that set things using echo ?
>/proc/sys/... just to avoid having to write a tiny C proggy.

If you think that the sysctl interface has to remains totally backwards
compatible even if in a 2.1.x unstable cycle this is another issue and
probably you have to ask Linus to not apply my patch. Personally I like
clean things but I know that such sysctl can' t harm in memory used and
runtime efficiency. If it would break some popular application (so that
the app to be fixed would have to check every time for uname -r) probably
I would left the sysctl.h unchanged.

Andrea Arcangeli


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