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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: rml@tech9.net, mingo@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] How to write a portable "run_on" program? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 07 May 2003 22:31:43 MST."
             <Pine.LNX.4.44.0305072221120.16772-100000@home.transmeta.com> 
Date: Thu, 08 May 2003 17:00:24 +1000
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In message <Pine.LNX.4.44.0305072221120.16772-100000@home.transmeta.com> you write:
> In other words, the proper way to do set_cpu() is
> 
> 	int set_cpu(int cpu)
> 	{
> 		fd_set cpuset;
> 
> 		FD_ZERO(&cpuset);
> 		FD_SET(cpu, cpuset);
> 		return sched_setaffinity(getpid(), sizeof(cpuset), &cpuset);
> 	}
> 
> which is a HELL OF A LOT more readable than the crap you're spouting 
> (either your "before" _or_ your "after" crap).

Congratulations: you're the only programmer to get this right.   It's
not your code I'm worried about 8(

Meanwhile, everyone is doing "unsigned long" because it "works on
x86".

Rusty.
--
  Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell.