Re: sysconf - exposing constants to userspace

[Tim Hockin]

On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 07:29:45PM -0500, Jeff Sipek wrote:
> If I understand the original post correctly, the numbers that we don't make 
> available to userspace are compile time constants. For example, since I can't 
> think of anything better, NR_CPUS. It is set during the config process, but 
> one cannot read the number from userspace while running that kernel. I know 
> that there are better examples, but I just can't think of any at the moment.
> 
> If I missed the point of the original post, please ignore me.

No, you got it.  BUt I was specifically thinking of POSIX sysconf stuff,
like NGROUPS_MAX.  See <linux/limits.h>.

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Tim Hockin
Sun Microsystems, Linux Software Engineering
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