From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [klibc] getpagesize / libsysfs broken with 0.148
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 17:44:16 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40F6C270.5090102@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40F6457F.8050200@suse.de>
H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
> *SIGH* So much for the claim that there actually existed a sane way to
> get the page size across platforms. This is particularly nasty because
> of the definition of mmap2().
>
> The kernel headers don't work very well since page size is a
> kernel-compile-time option on some platforms, e.g. MIPS, and dynamic on
> some platforms.
>
OK, Arjan van der Ven suggested using the AT_PAGESZ vector entry in the
ELF header; this provides a nice and uniform solution across all platforms.
-hpa
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-15 17:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-15 8:51 getpagesize / libsysfs broken with 0.148 Hannes Reinecke
2004-07-15 9:10 ` Harald Hoyer
2004-07-15 9:24 ` Hannes Reinecke
2004-07-15 14:53 ` Daniel Stekloff
2004-07-15 15:57 ` [klibc] " H. Peter Anvin
2004-07-15 17:44 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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