Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 11 Sep 2004 21:58:10 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: [1/1][PATCH] nproc v2: netlink access to /proc information |
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On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 15:11, Roger Luethi wrote: >> I have a few minor changes coming up as well. >> One nitpick: As vmexe and vmlib are always 0 for !CONFIG_MMU, we should >> ifdef them out of the list of offered fields for that configuration (and >> maybe in nproc_ps_field as well).
On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 06:25:56PM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote: > No. First of all, I think they can be offered. Until proven > otherwise, I'll assume that the !CONFIG_MMU case is buggy. > Second of all, removal will make the !CONFIG_MMU systems > less compatible with the rest of the world. This will > mean that fewer apps can run on !CONFIG_MMU boxes. It's > same problem as "All the world's a VAX". It's better that > the apps work; an author working on a Pentium 4 Xeon is > likely to write code that relies on the fields and might > not really understand what "no MMU" is all about.
Would the nommu bits I wrote be satisfactory for you?
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