From: Allan Duncan <allan.d@bigpond.com>
To: Christoph Rohland <cr@sap.com>
Cc: "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Shared memory quantity not being reflected by /proc/meminfo
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 20:19:33 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B371035.63563C4B@bigpond.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200106240249.f5O2nIF07215@saturn.cs.uml.edu> <m3n16yjmkl.fsf@linux.local> <3B35DC3D.6D2DC9C@bigpond.com> <m3els9jb4t.fsf@linux.local>
Christoph Rohland wrote:
>
> Hi Allan,
>
> On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, Allan Duncan wrote:
> > OK, it's fine by me if the "shared" under 2.2.x is not the same,
> > however in that case the field should not appear at all in meminfo,
> > rather than the current zero value, which leads lesser kernel
> > hackers like me up the garden path.
> This would probably break a lot of user space apps.
Then only break those that do a lousy parsing of meminfo and change the
heading line to "shared_is_not_real:" or somesuch?
Anyway, aren't the user apps being led up the garden path with the wrong
answer?
prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-06-25 10:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-06-23 12:08 Shared memory quantity not being reflected by /proc/meminfo Allan Duncan
2001-06-24 2:49 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-06-24 8:44 ` Christoph Rohland
2001-06-24 12:25 ` Allan Duncan
2001-06-25 7:01 ` Christoph Rohland
2001-06-25 10:19 ` Allan Duncan [this message]
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