From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: linux-os@analogic.com
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>, Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>,
"Gilbert, John" <JGG@dolby.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Illegal use of reserved word in system.h
Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 14:27:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1116505655.6027.45.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0505190734110.29439@chaos.analogic.com>
> First off, I think we need a system-call that will return some of
> the information that now comes from headers. PAGE_SIZE comes to
> mind. You need this for mmap() but there doesn't seem to be any
> way to get it. getpagesize() 'C' library just returns something
> it's swiped from kernel headers when the library was compiled.
> There are other things like the following that sometimes need
for getpagesize() I can see the point
> to be known also.
>
> HZ
HZ may not exist. At all; people are trying to remove it. And userspace
has no business knowing about it either.
> TASK_SIZE
what for?
> SMP
userspace should not care! Any app that looks at this is buggy; remember
the fully preemptable nature of userspace
> Number of errno values
why?
> Highest ioctl value used
uhh that;s driver dependent.. and what for ?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-19 12:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-18 19:07 Gilbert, John
2005-05-18 19:53 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-05-19 2:22 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-05-19 11:28 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-05-19 12:19 ` Richard B. Johnson
2005-05-19 12:27 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2005-05-19 12:47 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2005-05-19 13:01 ` Richard B. Johnson
2005-05-19 13:47 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-05-19 14:06 ` Andreas Schwab
2005-05-19 14:15 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-05-19 14:36 ` Richard B. Johnson
2005-05-19 15:19 ` Andreas Schwab
2005-05-19 15:56 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-05-19 16:03 ` Richard B. Johnson
2005-05-19 15:58 ` Richard B. Johnson
2005-05-19 16:22 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-05-19 17:06 ` Richard B. Johnson
2005-05-19 17:36 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-05-19 14:43 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2005-05-19 14:59 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-05-20 12:23 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2005-05-19 14:53 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-05-19 14:58 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2005-05-19 15:06 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-05-19 13:56 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-05-19 17:30 ` Ben Greear
2005-05-19 17:36 ` Chris Friesen
2005-05-19 17:40 ` Ben Greear
2005-05-19 22:14 ` Andreas Schwab
2005-05-19 22:30 ` J.A. Magallon
2005-05-19 22:41 ` Russell King
2005-05-19 23:10 ` J.A. Magallon
2005-05-20 0:01 ` Jeff Woods
2005-05-20 9:27 ` Helge Hafting
2005-05-20 16:47 ` Lee Revell
2005-05-20 16:56 ` Ben Greear
2005-05-18 23:42 ` Andi Kleen
2005-05-18 23:59 ` Adrian Bunk
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-05-20 17:30 Gilbert, John
2005-05-19 20:18 Gilbert, John
2005-05-19 1:51 Gilbert, John
2005-05-18 21:31 Gilbert, John
2005-05-19 17:37 ` Alan Cox
2005-05-20 11:49 ` Dave Airlie
2005-05-20 16:42 ` Alan Cox
2005-05-18 18:23 Gilbert, John
2005-05-18 19:02 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-05-18 19:32 ` Richard B. Johnson
2005-05-19 1:06 ` rdunlap
2005-05-18 0:51 Gilbert, John
2005-05-18 0:57 ` Lee Revell
2005-05-18 1:19 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-05-18 2:51 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-05-18 4:12 ` Willy Tarreau
2005-05-18 10:06 ` Patrick McFarland
2005-05-18 10:49 ` Coywolf Qi Hunt
2005-05-18 11:12 ` Richard B. Johnson
2005-05-18 21:52 ` Matan Peled
2005-05-19 11:03 ` Richard B. Johnson
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