On 7/10/06, Jeremy Higdon <jeremy@sgi.com> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 07:07:14AM -0600, David Mosberger-Tang wrote: > > Nothing is broken. Read Alan's statement carefully... > > > > --david > > His statement can be read a couple of ways. Alan said: -------------------------------------------------------------- From: Alan Cox <alan_at_lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Date: 2006-06-29 21:02:08 Ar Iau, 2006-06-29 am 05:37 -0400, ysgrifennodd Jes Sorensen: > You have my vote for that one. Anything else is just going to cause > those broken userapps to continue doing the wrong thing. We should > really do this on all archs though. No need, all current mainstream architectures expose a constant user HZ. Alan -------------------------------------------------------------- Note that Alan didn't claim that *all* (Linux-supported) architectures expose a constant user HZ, only the "mainstream" ones. I won't get into the debate as to what qualifies as "mainstream", but clearly IA64 does not (and should not) expose a constant value, since there were no legacy-binary-issue and we chose to insist that apps should uses sysconf() or equivalent if they need to know the clocktick. --david -- Mosberger Consulting LLC, http://www.mosberger-consulting.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Tue Jul 11 13:02:31 2006
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