From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>
To: Jonathan Lundell <jlundell@pobox.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to know HZ from userspace?
Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 19:12:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0105311912171L.06233@starship> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010530203725.H27719@corellia.laforge.distro.conectiva> <20010531013827.J16761@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <p0510031ab73b43e89d24@[10.128.7.49]>
In-Reply-To: <p0510031ab73b43e89d24@[10.128.7.49]>
On Thursday 31 May 2001 02:44, Jonathan Lundell wrote:
> At 1:38 AM +0100 2001-05-31, Joel Becker wrote:
> >On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 05:24:37PM -0700, Jonathan Lundell wrote:
> >> FWIW (perhaps not much in this context), the POSIX way is
> >>sysconf(_SC_CLK_TCK)
> >>
> >> POSIX sysconf is pretty useful for this kind of thing (not just
> >> HZ, either).
> >
> > Well, how many hundred things on Linux are available from /proc
> >but not from sysconf or the like? :-)
>
> Lots. Maybe we oughta have /proc/sysconf/... (there's no reason
> sysconf() can't be a library reading /proc).
The other way round would make more sense.
--
Daniel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-05-31 17:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-05-30 23:37 How to know HZ from userspace? Harald Welte
2001-05-31 0:07 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-05-31 0:22 ` Joel Becker
2001-05-31 0:24 ` Jonathan Lundell
2001-05-31 0:38 ` Joel Becker
2001-05-31 0:44 ` Jonathan Lundell
2001-05-31 1:02 ` Mike Castle
2001-05-31 17:12 ` Daniel Phillips [this message]
2001-05-31 1:17 ` Martin Dalecki
2001-05-31 3:23 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-06-01 1:57 ` Ralf Baechle
2001-06-01 4:12 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-06-01 8:17 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-05-31 3:40 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-05-31 15:52 ` Harald Welte
2001-05-31 17:06 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-06-03 23:14 ` Erik Tews
2001-06-06 18:09 ` Tomas Telensky
2001-06-06 18:22 ` Harald Welte
2001-06-06 18:59 ` Tomas Telensky
2001-06-06 20:47 ` Harald Welte
2001-06-06 20:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-06-06 23:59 ` Chris Wedgwood
[not found] <XFMail.20010601083302.peterw@dascom.com.au>
2001-05-31 22:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
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