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Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 18:45:25 -0500
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] syscall interface for cpu affinity
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Robert Love wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 2002-03-10 at 15:29, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> 
> > Please add the procinterface also!  I've found it today (for 2.4.18)
> > and it's much easier to use with existing programs.
> 
> I agree and I really like the proc-interface.  There is something uber
> cool about:
> 
>         cat 1 > /proc/pid/affinity
> 
> I have a patch for 2.5.6 for proc-based affinity interface here:
> 
>         http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rml/cpu-affinity/v2.5/cpu-affinity-proc-rml-2.5.6-1.patch


Anon!  But there is something uber-ugly about constantly jamming more
and more stuff into procfs without thinking or planning long term...  I
vote for the non-procfs approach :)

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