Re: sysconf - exposing constants to userspace

[Chris Wright]

* Jeff Sipek (jeffpc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) 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.

like /proc/sys/kernel/version? ;-)

later,
-chris
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