Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 May 2005 12:37:40 -0400 | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: /proc/cpuinfo format - arch dependent! |
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Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 12:21:21AM -0700, Paul Jackson wrote: > >>Yes - it's all there. Sometimes the ways to discover it aren't pretty, >>but that's one thing that libraries are good for - to wrap such detail. > > > And then when the kernel adds something new, you update one library > rather than 1000s of applications. > > Perhaps making it hard to get at without a certainl library is a good > way to avoid too many applications poling at it just because they can.
The advantage of /proc is that it works from C, Java, Perl, Python, etc. Oh, and humans, the reason all the application run.
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