Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261712AbUC0Nd5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Mar 2004 08:33:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261717AbUC0Nd5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Mar 2004 08:33:57 -0500 Received: from mail.shareable.org ([81.29.64.88]:17042 "EHLO mail.shareable.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261712AbUC0Nd4 (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Mar 2004 08:33:56 -0500 Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 13:31:33 +0000 From: Jamie Lokier To: Peter Williams Cc: Micha Feigin , lkml Subject: Re: finding out the value of HZ from userspace Message-ID: <20040327133133.GB21884@mail.shareable.org> References: <20040313193852.GC12292@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <40564A22.5000504@aurema.com> <20040316063331.GB23988@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <40578FDB.9060000@aurema.com> <20040320102241.GK2803@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <405C2AC0.70605@stesmi.com> <20040322223456.GB2549@luna.mooo.com> <405F70F6.5050605@aurema.com> <20040325174053.GB11236@mail.shareable.org> <406369A1.7090905@aurema.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <406369A1.7090905@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: 549 Lines: 15 Peter Williams wrote: > Making HZ == USER_HZ would also solve the problem. They were equal once. Making them equal now would reintroduce the problem that USER_HZ was created to resolve: some userspace programs hard-code the value, so it cannot be changed in interfaces used by those programs. -- Jamie - 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/