Re: HZ, preferably as small as possible

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>>>>> On Mon, 15 Jul 2002 14:20:31 -0400 (EDT), "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu> said:

  Albert> Perhaps you could explain how to access ELF notes from
  Albert> regular app code. That covers 2.4 kernels AFAIK, and so the
  Albert> hacks could go away as soon as Debian retires the 2.2
  Albert> kernel.

The ELF auxiliary info table is stored at the top of the user level
stack (above argv and envp). &envp[num_envs] should get you there
(check on the alignment, though).

        --david
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