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Date:      Wed, 13 Nov 2002 15:59:03 -0500 (EST)
From:      Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
To:        "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Nate Lawson <njl@FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-all@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/bin/sleep sleep.c
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.44.0211131557510.36295-100000@niwun.pair.com>
In-Reply-To: <20021113204941.GF29284@madman.nectar.cc>

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On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote:

> Oh, and I found writing directly to /dev/kmem resulted in another 10%
> reduction in overhead for echo versus using write(2), but a small
> downside is that echo would have to be installed set-user-ID.

That's not a major problem, we can work around it with ACLs.  There's the
slight downside that we'll have to require extended attributes to be
available for 5.0 / partitions, but I think it's worth the tradeoff.

Mike "Silby" Silbersack


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