RE: Filehandle patch & Linux Kernels.

On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Jordan Mendelson wrote:

> > Hi squidders,
> >
> > Does anyone has forwarded to Linus Torvalds the Michael O'Reilly
> > filehandle patch and requesting to be included in future kernels? this
> > patch could be interesting to other people who uses Linux for other uses
> > like NFS, FTP or WWW serving?
>
> The last filehandle patch will not work on 2.0.34pre11 w/ a Cyrix CPU, it
> halts during the switch to userspace (when INIT starts doing it's thing).

On inet-access they were discussing building squid boxes. Someone
suggested using a Cyrix CPU to save money. This is probably a really good
example of why you shouldn't.

I'll stay with Intel, thank you.

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Received on Fri Apr 24 1998 - 16:32:41 MDT