Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 Nov 1998 17:03:25 +0000 (GMT) | From | Tigran Aivazian <> | Subject | Re: New MHz field in /proc/cpuinfo on ix86 platforms |
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But Riley, there is (and always was) uname(2) system call which contains information about architecture in a portable way. Why add something somewhere if it is already present elsewhere?
Regards, Tigran
On Fri, 27 Nov 1998, Riley Williams wrote:
> > To be honest, we do need ONE standardised entry in /proc/cpuinfo which > is the one that states what architecture it's referring to. Given > that, the rest of it is irrelevant since any code checking it should > first check the architecture returned, and ignore the rest if it > doesnae understand that much...
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