Eric W. Biederman wrote: > But uname is noticeably faster than sysctl and uname is more portable > across linux flavors. So updating the glibc pthread code to use > uname looks like the right way to implement is_smp_system. This is (was?) not the universal through. We used uname at some point but then I did some profiling and sysctl turned out to be faster. If the reverse is true now I can certainly look into changing this but the evidence and ideally has to be there. The simplicity of the uname code should mean that it's faster. In a year or two I'll remove the test anyway. By then there will likely not be any UP kernels on reasonable machines anymore and I can drop all the conditional code. -- ➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, CA ❖
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