one of my current students observes the following -- that the proc files /proc/irq/<PID>/smp_affinity are not only readable, but writable and wonders why one would want to *change* the smp_affinity of IRQs for a given process (if that's actually what that would mean). i've never looked closely at that. any thoughts? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Top-notch, inexpensive online Linux/OSS/kernel courses http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ======================================================================== -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ