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Re: hack to get sysinfo initialized

From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
To: davidm at hpl dot hp dot com
Cc: libc-hacker at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 09:20:01 -0800
Subject: Re: hack to get sysinfo initialized
Organization: Red Hat, Inc.
References: <20030130173845.W17910@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz> <15929.22278.43634.52356@napali.hpl.hp.com> <3E395882.8060201@redhat.com> <15929.23049.292170.896244@napali.hpl.hp.com> <3E395BBF.8080407@redhat.com> <15929.23857.452779.385080@napali.hpl.hp.com>

David Mosberger wrote:


> Leaving it uninitialized
> seems more dangerous than initializing it with a sane value, no?

It's not more dangerous if no LinuxThreads port uses it.  The activation
for using sysinfo is in the nptl sources.

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