Re: SG_BIG_BUFF woes on Linux

Petter Reinholdtsen (pere@hungry.com)
Thu, 21 Jan 1999 15:26:17 +0100 (MET)

[Gerald Turner]
> This works but a better implementation would be to use sysctl() to
> get the value of sg-big-buff at runtime, better yet fread()
> /proc/sys/kernel/sg-big-buff.

Why do you think that reading this value from /proc is a better
implementation then using sysctl(). The POSIX way would probably be
to use sysconf(), but is there a name for SG_BIG_BUFF defined?

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