Followup to: <200007272156.RAA04805@tsx-prime.MIT.EDU>
By author: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Ulrich,
>
> Linus is right, no major structural change is necessary. For example,
> here's a very short patch necessary to support __SC_CLK_TCK (which is
> probably the most interesting of the sysconf() variables as far as I'm
> concerned.) It's only a 5-line patch. (See below)
>
I don't think we want to do this! IMO, HZ should not get exported to
user space *AT ALL*. Instead, for the few interfaces that need it,
we'll export a "user space HZ" (USER_HZ) which is fixed. No need for
a kernel hack. When we support nonstandard values for HZ, we need to
fix the few interfaces that actually export jiffies values to convert
from "user jiffies" to real jiffies.
-hpa
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