Re: [Patch] sysinfo compatibility

From: Erik Andersen (andersen@codepoet.org)
Date: Wed Aug 22 2001 - 10:45:54 EST

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On Wed Aug 22, 2001 at 08:44:39AM +0200, Christoph Rohland wrote:
>
> BTW I appreciate the basics of the change for 2.4, but I don't agree
> that we should break cases which worked before. (And the comment in
> the sources is plain wrong that 2.2 failed in these cases)

But 2.2 _did_ fail. If you take a linux 2.2.x system, add 4 Gigs
of swap, and then use sysinfo(), the sizes you get back are junk...

-Erik

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