Re: 2.1.120 - too many errors on the network interfaces
Tim Smith (tzs@tzs.net)
Tue, 22 Sep 1998 00:22:23 -0700 (PDT)
On Tue, 22 Sep 1998, Mitchell Blank Jr wrote:
> > There could be a /proc/versions, which contains line of the form
> > path_in_slash_proc version_number
>
> ...so every program that needs to read stuff out of proc has to go through
> the overhead of {open/read/close}'ing another file....
Programs would be free to ignore /proc/versions and do whatever they do now,
if that extra 500 microseconds of one-time overhead is too much for them.
--Tim Smith
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