Re: Some ideas for the kernel wishlist

Martin Mares (mj@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz)
Tue, 7 Apr 1998 11:02:41 +0200


Hi,

> But then there must be a sysctl to obtain the currently selected
> value. So far, the libc has to guess and uses a constant value.

Well, I don't understand why does libc need to know HZ. If there exist such
places, it seems as an kernel <-> user interface inconsistency to me and it
probably should be changed to some more portable format.

Have a nice fortnight

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Martin `MJ' Mares   <mj@ucw.cz>   http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
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