Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Sep 1998 00:22:23 -0700 (PDT) | From | Tim Smith <> | Subject | Re: 2.1.120 - too many errors on the network interfaces |
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On Tue, 22 Sep 1998, Mitchell Blank Jr wrote: > > There could be a /proc/versions, which contains line of the form > > path_in_slash_proc version_number > > ...so every program that needs to read stuff out of proc has to go through > the overhead of {open/read/close}'ing another file....
Programs would be free to ignore /proc/versions and do whatever they do now, if that extra 500 microseconds of one-time overhead is too much for them.
--Tim Smith
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