From: kaih@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen)
To: torvalds@transmeta.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] /proc/sys/kernel/pointer_size
Date: 11 Jan 2003 11:18:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8deE8FwHw-B@khms.westfalen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0301081300200.1497-100000@home.transmeta.com>
torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds) wrote on 08.01.03 in <Pine.LNX.4.44.0301081300200.1497-100000@home.transmeta.com>:
> On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, John Levon wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 12:28:23PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > or could even be a user program config file option.
> >
> > Eww.
>
> And it's less disgusting than adding a kernel hack for it?
>From my point of view as both user and programmer: about a hundred times
less disgusting. (Also probably needs at least ten (maybe a hundred) times
less code, including the kernel code, which plays a big part in the
"disgusting" value.)
MfG Kai
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-11 11:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-08 19:59 [PATCH] /proc/sys/kernel/pointer_size John Levon
2003-01-08 20:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-01-08 20:52 ` John Levon
2003-01-08 21:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-01-08 22:37 ` David S. Miller
2003-01-08 22:40 ` John Levon
2003-01-11 9:18 ` Kai Henningsen [this message]
2003-01-08 22:34 ` David S. Miller
2003-01-08 23:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-01-08 23:03 ` David S. Miller
2003-01-09 0:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-01-09 0:03 ` David S. Miller
2003-01-09 4:00 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-01-09 4:31 ` David S. Miller
2003-01-09 5:23 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-01-09 23:09 ` Bill Davidsen
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