Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: procfs problems | Date | Tue, 15 Apr 1997 12:48:27 -0700 (PDT) |
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> > > Those of you interested in discussing design flaws with the current procfs > > filesystem, take a look at > > > > http://www.anime.net/~goemon/procfs.html > > > > I invite comments. > > Well regarding your /proc/cpuinfo format, I think we could fix this > problem by just making sure that the very first line of the cpuinfo > holds the port name. > > Something like: > > /proc/cpuinfo: > port : {i386,alpha,sparc,ppc,mips} > > And then, if people want to parse any of the extra information, they > should know the architecture specific information on the CPU before > attempting to parse it.
Isn't that what uname -m is supposed to do?
Pet peeve: uname -m should return i386 on all systems. If we want to make the processor generation visible via uname, I think we should make uname -p work.
-hpa
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