Re: disabling Intel PSN

Marc Lehmann (pcg@opengroup.org)
Thu, 16 Dec 1999 10:31:39 +0100

On Wed, Dec 15, 1999 at 05:49:46PM -0800, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@transmeta.com> wrote:
> I disagree with this sentiment: there are applications for which this
> is a desirable feature. It would be better if this was a kernel

The *only* application I can imagine is the generation of unique ids. And
there are much better ways to accomplish this (e.g. libuuid), anyway.

PSNs are non-portable and useless.

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