Re: [patch] v1.01 of /proc/.config (ready to eat)

Adam Heath (doogie@debian.org)
Sat, 13 Mar 1999 15:16:16 -0600 (CST)


On Sat, 13 Mar 1999, Tigran Aivazian wrote:

> 4. plain text /proc/.config (as per my patches)
> This is bad because we unconditionally use up a couple of pages of
> physical memory. But we don't do much else other than provide user space
> with data correctly positioned for them to lseek() and get at it.
>
> As we see, everything is bad, in which case, we choose the least evil,
> which is 4. :)
>

5. plain text /proc/.config, erasable by echo > /proc/.config

Adam

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