> You can get a lot of that from /proc already.
Not everything, very slow and /proc is not available everywhere.
> Quite frankly, I don't care about theory. Yes, in theory there's a lot you
> need. In practice, I don't see any real people clamouring for it.
Then you haven't looked enough. When I missed to have these options
in the libc's sysconf I indeed got requests.
> And discussing this at this point is useless anyway. It's not getting past
> the code-freeze - if people haven't been needing it before now, there's no
> excuse for saying that we need it NOW.
It's only that late because you decided to ignore the half a dozend or
more requests I posted before.
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