From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 22 Aug 2001 11:46:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 22 Aug 2001 11:45:44 -0400 Received: from codepoet.org ([166.70.14.212]:27227 "HELO winder.codepoet.org") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Wed, 22 Aug 2001 11:45:39 -0400 Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 09:45:54 -0600 From: Erik Andersen To: Christoph Rohland Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [Patch] sysinfo compatibility Message-ID: <20010822094554.A9760@codepoet.org> Reply-To: andersen@codepoet.org Mail-Followup-To: Erik Andersen , Christoph Rohland , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <20010821114640.A25151@codepoet.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.20i X-Operating-System: Linux 2.4.7-rmk2, Rebel-NetWinder(Intel sa110 rev 3), 262.14 BogoMips X-No-Junk-Mail: I do not want to get *any* junk mail. Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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--