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Message-ID: <87lg1avfw8.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de>
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2019 20:11:03 +0100
From: Florian Weimer <fw@...eb.enyo.de>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: Michael Jeanson <mjeanson@...icios.com>,  Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@...uxfoundation.org>,  Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,  Jonathan Rajotte-Julien <jonathan.rajotte-julien@...icios.com>
Subject: Re: sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF) returns the wrong value

* Szabolcs Nagy:

> i think we need to know why does a process care if musl returns
> the wrong number? or what are the valid uses of such a number?

If the value is 1, the process might use different concurrency
algorithms.

This is why glibc returns 2 if the appropriate value is not available.

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