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Re: hack to get sysinfo initialized

>>>>> On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 09:20:01 -0800, Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> said:

  Uli> David Mosberger wrote:
  >> Leaving it uninitialized
  >> seems more dangerous than initializing it with a sane value, no?

  Uli> It's not more dangerous if no LinuxThreads port uses it.  The activation
  Uli> for using sysinfo is in the nptl sources.

Oh, I think I understand now: the normal libc never defines
USE_DL_SYSINFO on x86 and hence nothing changes.

OK, I suppose that's fine then.  I'll just continue to use my hacks
until NPTL is ready.

Thanks,

	--david
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