From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267703AbUH3LSt (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Aug 2004 07:18:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267745AbUH3LSt (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Aug 2004 07:18:49 -0400 Received: from box.punkt.pl ([217.8.180.66]:14091 "HELO box.punkt.pl") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S267703AbUH3LSD (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Aug 2004 07:18:03 -0400 From: Mariusz Mazur To: andersen@codepoet.org Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] linux-libc-headers 2.6.8.1 Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 13:17:32 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 Cc: "David S. Miller" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200408292232.14446.mmazur@kernel.pl> <20040830002422.4b634c6c.davem@davemloft.net> <20040830074835.GA12963@codepoet.org> In-Reply-To: <20040830074835.GA12963@codepoet.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200408301317.32758.mmazur@kernel.pl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On poniedziałek 30 sierpień 2004 09:48, Erik Andersen wrote: > There is no question that using PAGE_SIZE should be considered > harmful. But this particular change to the linux-libc-headers > makes it easy for the common case (bog standard x86) folk to keep > using a fixed PAGE_SIZE value, and keep writing crap code which > is now _guaranteed_ to blow chunks on mips, x86_64, etc. Good point. I'll switch to using getpagesize() everywhere in a release or two. -- In the year eighty five ten God is gonna shake his mighty head He'll either say, "I'm pleased where man has been" Or tear it down, and start again