Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 3 Mar 2001 14:17:48 -0500 (EST) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: Q: How to get physical memory size from user space without proc fs |
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On 3 Mar 2001, Michael Rothwell wrote:
> pyhsmem = `free | grep Mem | tr -s "/ / /" | cut -f2 -d" "`
% strace free 2>&1 |grep /proc open("/proc/cpuinfo", O_RDONLY) = 3 open("/proc/uptime", O_RDONLY) = 3 open("/proc/stat", O_RDONLY) = 4 open("/proc/meminfo", O_RDONLY) = 5
I.e. it still uses procfs. Which is perfectly fine, just encapsulate it in initscripts so that information would be obtained when system is booted. Should work for people who don't want procfs around after that. Cheers, Al
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