On Sun Jun 04, 2000 at 09:30:56PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Ok. I hadn't considered that case. Doesn't that mean 2.2.x is broken
> > as well?
>
> Mount a pair of 2Gig swap files - yes
I assume the 2.2.x problem is in the never-to-be-fixed category (since fixing
it by changing sysinfo would break binary compatability within a stable kernel
series).
So, to get beck to my question, would you accept a sysinfo64 patch that
implements the new behavior, along with my patch to revert the behavior of
sysinfo with the additional change to cap the return values to MAX_ULONG?
Alternately, would you be willing to accept a patch for 2.2.x that incorporates
the new sysinfo struct, but sets mem_unit=1, totalhigh=0, freehigh=0?
Without one of these, I will have to start maintaining my own copy of the 2.4.x
struct sysinfo within my own code or it won't compile under 2.2.x...
-Erik
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