Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 6 Jul 1999 22:10:58 +0100 (BST) | From | Alex Buell <> | Subject | Re: Patch for 2.2.10 (Quelle surprise!) |
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On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> > Basically it just returns a structure filled out with processor > > information a la 'cat /proc/cpuinfo', except that this is done via a > > syscall - no more horrid /proc parsing. > > That is exactly the sort of thing that sysctl() was designed for.
OK, I've heard the same thing from a number of people. Looks like I'll be spending some time re-implementing the work I've done as a sysctl().
Thanks for all the input, guys.
Cheers, Alex --
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