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
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next prev parent 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
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