Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 28 Aug 2000 16:22:37 -0400 | From | Jason R Fink <> | Subject | Re: Broken /proc/meminfo ? |
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> can't we set them to -1 instead? i think people are more likely to > understand that -1 is `can't answer question' then 0.
on OpenBSD some stats that came from the kernel were decided not to be included in userland. this resulted in negative top values for kernel processes (i believe this cropped up on 2.7 - not sure). Anyway - users still asked if it was a bug, I don't think setting it to -1 would make a difference.
jrf
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