Re: SMP & /sbin/clock past 1.3.72

Ulrich Windl (Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de)
Tue, 16 Apr 1996 12:57:34 +0100

On 15 Apr 96 at 16:01, Paul Gortmaker wrote:

[...]
> iopl(3) which is what kills you. Using the current /sbin/clock on an
> SMP box is about as intelligent as doing "cat /dev/urandom > /dev/port".

This is true for every program that uses I/O ports? I'm thinking of
Superprobe, X, svgalib, (what else?)...

Ulrich