[KLUG Programming] Pthreads problem

Peter Buxton programming@kalamazoolinux.org
Mon, 5 Jan 2004 04:14:30 -0500


On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 05:43:20PM -0500, Adam Williams was only escaped
   alone to tell thee:

> > Such a system would almost certainly use sysctl(2) directly for
> > efficiency, rather than calling it indirectly through the VFS.
> > Efficiency for such a (fictional) /proc-management app would be
> > quite different than for a hacker at the keyboard, or a script that
> > changed some value while doing network migration. 
> 
> Fictional? http://powertweak.sourceforge.net/index.html  This app is a
> nice way to initially navigate system values.  Wouldn't trust in on
> one of my servers.

I think that says it all.

This is my second-to-last post on this subject, please see my response
to RGB for my last.

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