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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Cc: Michael Jeanson <mjeanson@efficios.com>,
	 Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>,
	 Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
	 Jonathan Rajotte-Julien <jonathan.rajotte-julien@efficios.com>
Subject: Re: sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF) returns the wrong value
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2019 20:11:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lg1avfw8.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190316022534.GN26605@port70.net> (Szabolcs Nagy's message of "Sat, 16 Mar 2019 03:25:34 +0100")

* Szabolcs Nagy:

> i think we need to know why does a process care if musl returns
> the wrong number? or what are the valid uses of such a number?

If the value is 1, the process might use different concurrency
algorithms.

This is why glibc returns 2 if the appropriate value is not available.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-03-19 19:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-03-15 21:02 Jonathan Rajotte-Julien
2019-03-16  2:25 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2019-03-16 13:58   ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2019-03-16 14:28   ` Jonathan Rajotte-Julien
2019-03-19 19:11   ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2019-03-26 16:23   ` Jonathan Rajotte-Julien
2019-03-26 17:45     ` Szabolcs Nagy
2019-03-26 18:01       ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2019-04-02 19:02         ` Szabolcs Nagy
2019-04-02 22:38           ` Mathieu Desnoyers

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