Re: [PATCH] /proc/sys/kernel/pointer_size

David S. Miller
2003-01-09T00:03:50Z

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 16:02:24 -0800 (PST)

Or you can use an /etc/systype file that contains information.

That sounds fine to me.

A funny way to initialize this could be by reading System.map
and seeing how many significant hexidecimal digits are used
to list the kernel symbol addresses :-)