Re: pre-2.0.31-7 nit picks
Florian La Roche (florian@knorke.saar.de)
Tue, 19 Aug 1997 16:13:07 +0200
> Aaron Tiensivu writes:
> >+You can adjust these with a command such as:
> >+
> >+# echo 128 256 512 > /proc/sys/vm/freepages
> >+
> >
> >All those echo's should be:
> >
> >echo "128 256 512" > /proc/sys/vm/freepages
>
> Says who?
>
> $ echo 128 256 512 > a
> $ echo "128 256 512" > b
> $ diff a b
> $
>
> The echo command concatenates its arguments separated by spaces.
The Kernel needs these things from a single write(). Some versions
of bash (2.0?) seem to send "echo 128 256 512" in three calls to "write()"
instead of a single one.
Greetings,
Florian La Roche