Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 5 Nov 1998 20:17:25 +0100 (CET) | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: [patch] my latest oom stuff |
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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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