Re: [PATCH -rt] fix setting of preempt_max_latency andpreempt_thresh on 64 bit systems

[Steven Rostedt]

On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 21:15 +0200, Andreas Mohr wrote:

> Maybe fix up all the other myriads of sysctl entries which use a rather
> non-precise generic sizeof(int) as well?
> Or doesn't that make sense?

No, it does make sense

> Maybe this is because it's security relevant and you'd better make sure
> to know *exactly* the number of integers a buffer's length is supposed to be?

This is the problem. I was going to put some more time and clean up all
the stuff in there, but it will take more time than I currently have.
Since I would need to audit all the variables, and see how they would
interact in every arch.

-- Steve


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