Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: /proc/cpuinfo verbiage differ unnecessarily between ports... | From | Jes Sorensen <> | Date | 01 Sep 1999 11:00:23 +0200 |
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>>>>> "David" == david parsons <o.r.c@p.e.l.l.p.o.r.t.l.a.n.d.o.r.u.s> writes:
David> In article <linux.kernel.d3r9kjzjjl.fsf@lxp03.cern.ch>, Jes David> Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@cern.ch> wrote: >> Since none of the info in /proc/cpuinfo should be of interest to >> any tools
David> Why not? I'd say that the contents of /proc/cpuinfo would David> be very interesting to tools, because it's what the operating David> system thinks it's running on.
Why, it's a name of the CPU, MMU and FPU a bunch of version levels and a list of bugs. In principle these are of no interest to user space applications except for "my **** is bigger than your ****" applications.
Now while we are at it, please fix your mail client to stop eating the References: lines - it's very rude.
Jes
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