Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Patch for 2.2.10 (Quelle surprise!) | From | Jes Sorensen <> | Date | 07 Jul 1999 10:50:49 +0200 |
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>>>>> "Alex" == Alex Buell <alex.buell@tahallah.demon.co.uk> writes:
Alex> On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: >> > Basically it just returns a structure filled out with processor > >> information a la 'cat /proc/cpuinfo', except that this is done via >> a > syscall - no more horrid /proc parsing. >> >> That is exactly the sort of thing that sysctl() was designed for.
Alex> OK, I've heard the same thing from a number of people. Looks Alex> like I'll be spending some time re-implementing the work I've Alex> done as a sysctl().
Alex> Thanks for all the input, guys.
You still haven't explained why a syscall/sysctl is needed for this when all the information can be obtained by parsing /proc/cpuinfo
Jes
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