Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 7 Dec 1999 21:47:11 -0500 (EST) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: Getting system info from the kernel |
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On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, Steve Dodd wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 12:38:18AM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote: > > > It would be reall nice if we had a generally accepted library with sane > > interface that could be used by everything. Then the changes would be much > > easier. Right now we have all sorts of spiffy little utilities (seriously > > resembling DOS BBS collections - bad symptom in itself), each of them > > doing its own thing in its own way. Yes, if they would directly use the > > kernel memory it would be even worse. But even in the current form it's a > > mess. > > Am I mad or is part of the problem that *everything* is in glibc?
It's neither in glibc nor in any other common library. Which is the problem.
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