Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 09:09:57 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/scripts doFS.sh Message-ID: <20010310090957.A13194@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103110218550.14103-100000@besplex.bde.org>; from bde@zeta.org.au on Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 02:19:50AM %2B1100 References: <20010309043513.A28523@dragon.nuxi.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103110218550.14103-100000@besplex.bde.org>
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On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 02:19:50AM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote:
> > > Why `-m 1' instead of `-m 0'?
> >
> > I was afraid some code somewhere would for some reason divide by the
> > percentage free and not check for zero. If we are sure -m 0 will not
> > cause a problem I would rather use that.
>
> This shouldn't be a problem. The kernel only multiplies by %free.
Ok, I'll switch to -m 0. I was trying to error on the side of caution --
especially this close to a release.
I wasn't as worried about the kernel (since I read the code there), as
some userland utility somewhere out in the world.
--
-- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
GNU is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX
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