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Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 16:03:52 -0800 (PST)
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] /proc/sys/kernel/pointer_size
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
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   From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
   Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 16:02:24 -0800 (PST)
   
   Or you can use an /etc/systype file that contains information.
   
That sounds fine to me.

A funny way to initialize this could be by reading System.map
and seeing how many significant hexidecimal digits are used
to list the kernel symbol addresses :-)
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