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SubjectRe: [PATCH 12/13] hrtimer: create a "timer_slack" field in the task struct
On Sun, 14 Sep 2008 09:04:08 -0700
"Ulrich Drepper" <drepper@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> You cannot really use the environment for anything meaningful.
> Especially for this case, you couldn't change the setting for a
> running process. What a fully-userlevel implementation would have to
> do is read the value from a file and monitor the file for changes for
> every new poll/select call. That's a huge cost.

in addition, the value really is per thread, not per process, and how
do you want to do that with env. variables?

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