Re: [ANNOUNCE] linux-libc-headers 2.6.8.1

From: Mariusz Mazur
Date: Mon Aug 30 2004 - 06:21:52 EST


On poniedziałek 30 sierpień 2004 09:48, Erik Andersen wrote:
> There is no question that using PAGE_SIZE should be considered
> harmful. But this particular change to the linux-libc-headers
> makes it easy for the common case (bog standard x86) folk to keep
> using a fixed PAGE_SIZE value, and keep writing crap code which
> is now _guaranteed_ to blow chunks on mips, x86_64, etc.

Good point. I'll switch to using getpagesize() everywhere in a release or two.

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"I'm pleased where man has been"
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