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Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 16:04:01 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
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Subject: Re: Recent changes to sysctl.h breaks glibc
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William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> 
> On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 03:46:01PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
>>Unfortunately "the current policy" is unrealistic, and repeating it
>>doesn't make it any less so.
> 
> No contest there; unfortunately unrealistic amounts of work seem to
> be required to get around the general state of affairs at times. =(
> Does it really have to be 2.7? It seems most of this would be header
> reorganization with no runtime impact on the kernel.
> 

It is; it doesn't have to be in 2.7 if someone would be willing to step
up and do it in time for 2.6.  Personally I wouldn't have a prayer; I'm
already way to deep into too many projects...

	-=hpa


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