Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 1 Sep 1999 15:18:10 +0200 (CEST) | From | Henrik Olsen <> | Subject | Re: /proc/cpuinfo verbiage differ unnecessarily between ports... |
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On 1 Sep 1999, Jes Sorensen wrote: > >>>>> "Ronald" == Ronald Cole <ronald@forte-intl.com> writes: > > Ronald> I can't think of any good argument for keeping "processor" for > Ronald> the i386 and "cpu" for the sparc64. Someone should probably > Ronald> fix all the different ports so that the verbiage is > Ronald> consistent... > > Since none of the info in /proc/cpuinfo should be of interest to any > tools it should be fairly irrelevant. It's been different since the > first days of the /proc filesystem and never caused problems before.
This is not quite correct, this thread springs up regularly, but since none of the people saying that "Someone should fix... " gets to the point where they add " and that someone is me", nothing actually happens.
> > Jes
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