Re: [patch] jiffies wraparound [Re: 2.1.125 Show stopper list: Draft]
H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
28 Oct 1998 03:05:20 GMT
Followup to: <m0zYHoB-0007UkC@the-village.bc.nu>
By author: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> > > cool thing to do. It's conceptually something really useful (imagine a
> > > remote xload facility ;). It just doesn't work too well due to
> > > nonportability issues in the file formats.
> > >
> > > If somebody were to send me patches like that, I would at least not flame
> > > them. I flame stupidity, not fixing problems.
>
> Remote xload can work (although the file data is faked a bit badly for NFS
> to cope). Also no patch is needed /proc/version is the parsing key ;)
>
Of course, I have an rxload program on ftp.kernel.org that probably is
a better solution (doesn't hang when the system is down for example),
although that's probably not really relevant :)
-hpa
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