hack to get sysinfo initialized
David Mosberger
davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com
Thu Jan 30 17:40:00 GMT 2003
>>>>> On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 09:20:01 -0800, Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> said:
Uli> David Mosberger wrote:
>> Leaving it uninitialized
>> seems more dangerous than initializing it with a sane value, no?
Uli> It's not more dangerous if no LinuxThreads port uses it. The activation
Uli> for using sysinfo is in the nptl sources.
Oh, I think I understand now: the normal libc never defines
USE_DL_SYSINFO on x86 and hence nothing changes.
OK, I suppose that's fine then. I'll just continue to use my hacks
until NPTL is ready.
Thanks,
--david
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