Re: finding out the value of HZ from userspace

[Kai Henningsen]

stesmi@xxxxxxxxxx (Stefan Smietanowski)  wrote on 20.03.04 in <405C2AC0.70605@xxxxxxxxxx>:

> >>>there is one. Nothing uses it
> >>>(sysconf() provides this info)
> >>
> >>Seems to me that it would be fairly trivial to modify those programs
> >>(that should use this mechanism but don't) to use it?  So why should
> >>they be allowed to dictate kernel behaviour?
> >
> >
> > quality of implementation; for example shell scripts that want to do
> > echo 500 > /proc/sys/foo/bar/something_in_HZ
> > ...
> > or /etc/sysctl.conf or ...
> >
>
> Then write a simple program already. How hard is it to write a program
> that does a sysconf() and returns (as ascii of course) just the
> value of HZ? Then do some trivial calculation off of that.

How about a slightly more useful utility, like this:

$ getconf CLK_TCK
100
$ getconf OPEN_MAX
1024
$ getconf PATH_MAX /proc/
4096
$

MfG Kai
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