Re: [patch] jiffies wraparound [Re: 2.1.125 Show stopper list: Draft]

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 27 Oct 1998 22:41:46 +0000 (GMT)


> > cool thing to do. It's conceptually something really useful (imagine a
> > remote xload facility ;). It just doesn't work too well due to
> > nonportability issues in the file formats.
> >
> > If somebody were to send me patches like that, I would at least not flame
> > them. I flame stupidity, not fixing problems.

Remote xload can work (although the file data is faked a bit badly for NFS
to cope). Also no patch is needed /proc/version is the parsing key ;)

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