Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> writes:
> Uli, maybe you forgot about that "open source" thing?
I have no time to work on the kernel. You keep forgetting that
non-kernel related work also takes a tiny little bit of time to
perform.
> And btw, the kernel doesn't even _know_ many of the sysconf values. They
> depend on library implementation, and apparently even on things like the
> implementation of the "expr" binary. So "sysconf()" is not a kernel thing.
Nobody talks about a complete sysconf implementation. Only one which
exposese the kernel parameters. The libc will add the rest.
> A subset of those sysconf values are things that you should ask the
> kernel, but go look at what sysconf should return: it's definitely not a
> system call.
Of course. Just recently I needed the real value of NGROUPS_MA. How
should I get it? Also, fpathconf() is needed. And no, I'm not
misdirecting this. Their were in the past some tries to implement
this and you ignored them.
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