public inbox for linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
To: Christoph Rohland <cr@sap.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Patch] sysinfo compatibility
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 09:45:54 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010822094554.A9760@codepoet.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0108211137340.1320-100000@localhost.localdomain> <m34rr12ueb.fsf@linux.local> <20010821114640.A25151@codepoet.org> <m3bsl81tm0.fsf@linux.local>
In-Reply-To: <m3bsl81tm0.fsf@linux.local>

On Wed Aug 22, 2001 at 08:44:39AM +0200, Christoph Rohland wrote:
> 
> BTW I appreciate the basics of the change for 2.4, but I don't agree
> that we should break cases which worked before. (And the comment in
> the sources is plain wrong that 2.2 failed in these cases)

But 2.2 _did_ fail.  If you take a linux 2.2.x system, add 4 Gigs
of swap, and then use sysinfo(), the sizes you get back are junk...  

 -Erik

--
Erik B. Andersen   email:  andersee@debian.org, andersen@lineo.com
--This message was written using 73% post-consumer electrons--

  reply	other threads:[~2001-08-22 15:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-08-21  8:03 [Patch] sysinfo compatibility Christoph Rohland
2001-08-21 10:59 ` Hugh Dickins
2001-08-21 13:50   ` Alan Cox
2001-08-21 17:30     ` Christoph Rohland
2001-08-21 18:40       ` Alan Cox
2001-08-22  6:40         ` Christoph Rohland
2001-08-21 17:30   ` Christoph Rohland
2001-08-21 17:46     ` Erik Andersen
2001-08-22  6:44       ` Christoph Rohland
2001-08-22 15:45         ` Erik Andersen [this message]
2001-08-22 16:04           ` Christoph Rohland
2001-08-21 18:40     ` Hugh Dickins

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20010822094554.A9760@codepoet.org \
    --to=andersen@codepoet.org \
    --cc=cr@sap.com \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox