Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 22 Aug 2001 09:45:54 -0600 | From | Erik Andersen <> | Subject | Re: [Patch] sysinfo compatibility |
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On Wed Aug 22, 2001 at 08:44:39AM +0200, Christoph Rohland wrote: > > BTW I appreciate the basics of the change for 2.4, but I don't agree > that we should break cases which worked before. (And the comment in > the sources is plain wrong that 2.2 failed in these cases)
But 2.2 _did_ fail. If you take a linux 2.2.x system, add 4 Gigs of swap, and then use sysinfo(), the sizes you get back are junk...
-Erik
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