On 05/06/2017 10:07 AM, Ian Pilcher wrote: > On 05/06/2017 12:51 AM, dieter wrote: >> Personally, I doubt that you will find a reference. >> Instead, I assume that the reference comes from the C runtime library. >> It might hepl optimize memory management to know about "meminfo" details. > > You're right. Seems that it's glibc's qsort(). > > So it seems that any service written in Python (or any other program > that uses qsort) needs to be given read access to most of /proc or deal > with the (unspecified) consequences of not allowing qsort() to determine > the amount of memory in the system.
"most of /proc?" I thought you said it just needs to read meminfo, which I hardly can see a problem with. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
