Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 16 Dec 1999 10:31:39 +0100 | From | Marc Lehmann <> | Subject | Re: disabling Intel PSN |
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On Wed, Dec 15, 1999 at 05:49:46PM -0800, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@transmeta.com> wrote: > I disagree with this sentiment: there are applications for which this > is a desirable feature. It would be better if this was a kernel
The *only* application I can imagine is the generation of unique ids. And there are much better ways to accomplish this (e.g. libuuid), anyway.
PSNs are non-portable and useless.
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