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SubjectRe: /proc/cpuinfo verbiage differ unnecessarily between ports...
On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 10:44:57AM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Steve Dodd <dirk@loth.demon.co.uk> writes:

[cpuinfo]
> |> Would it not be more sensible to introduce a syscall or some such thing to
> |> do it?

> How about extending sysinfo(2)?

Without looking at it, what I think would be sensible is something that's
a read-only version of the sysctl stuff -- so we have a syscall, /and/ simply
formatted files in proc (probably just a single value per file). That way
the glibc people are happ(y|ier), and Mr. parsons can sit around attempting
to eliminate fork bombs by reading unchangeable values from files in /proc <g>

--
"His mind is like a steel trap -- full of mice"

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