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Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 10:15:17 -0800
From: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
To: James Morris <jmorris@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: sysctl vs /proc/sys
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On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 09:28:32AM -0500, James Morris wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / [iso-2022-jp] 吉藤英明 wrote:
> 
> > Can we get the exact previous value from /proc/sys atomicly?
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean by this.

Read value and modify in one op?