Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: REQUEST for /proc/cpuinfo copies & a baby bugbear :o( | Date | Mon, 21 Sep 1998 22:04:02 -0300 | From | "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <> |
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In message <Pine.LNX.4.04.9809212140320.196-100000@tahallah.demon.co.uk>, Alex Buell writes: +----- | Yeah. Since someone has told me it is possible to retrieve the information | by making syscalls to the kernel, I think this is the safest and most | compatible way to go. Anyone care to give me clues or resources where I | can read up on? I really don't want to depend on the /proc/cpuinfo file | really. +--->8
I thought the whole point of /proc was to provide an easy-to-use interface to kernel-resident information... and gratuitously per-systype /proc stuff smacks of the SVR4 /proc implementation (although not quite as bad because it's still text).
-- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering KF8NH carnegie mellon university
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