Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263336AbUCTK0s (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Mar 2004 05:26:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263339AbUCTK0H (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Mar 2004 05:26:07 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:50313 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263336AbUCTKYG (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Mar 2004 05:24:06 -0500 Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 11:22:41 +0100 From: Arjan van de Ven To: Peter Williams Cc: Micha Feigin , John Reiser , lkml Subject: Re: finding out the value of HZ from userspace Message-ID: <20040320102241.GK2803@devserv.devel.redhat.com> References: <20040311141703.GE3053@luna.mooo.com> <1079198671.4446.3.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> <4053624D.6080806@BitWagon.com> <20040313193852.GC12292@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <40564A22.5000504@aurema.com> <20040316063331.GB23988@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <40578FDB.9060000@aurema.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="dxRQSzdsN/lOP445" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <40578FDB.9060000@aurema.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1109 Lines: 38 --dxRQSzdsN/lOP445 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 10:38:03AM +1100, Peter Williams wrote: > >there is one. Nothing uses it > >(sysconf() provides this info) > > Seems to me that it would be fairly trivial to modify those programs > (that should use this mechanism but don't) to use it? So why should > they be allowed to dictate kernel behaviour? quality of implementation; for example shell scripts that want to do echo 500 > /proc/sys/foo/bar/something_in_HZ ... or /etc/sysctl.conf or ... --dxRQSzdsN/lOP445 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAXBtwxULwo51rQBIRAhstAKCpWVGajadToIP8LeUEfwix1ArN5gCeI3h8 a7Y/6WfrgblxT0qdhHe7uII= =Y/Ag -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --dxRQSzdsN/lOP445-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/