Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 2 Sep 1999 00:29:33 +0200 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: /proc/cpuinfo verbiage differ unnecessarily between ports... |
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On Wed, Sep 01 1999, Phillip Ezolt wrote: > This is not true. There are REAL uses for the call. > > I am currently porting an application from Tru64 with behavior that depends on > the number of CPUs in the system. (For example, How many buffers should I > allocate?) > > Sure. I can write some code to parse /proc/stat or /proc/cpuinfo. Tru64 has > the sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF) call, and it would be nice if Linux did the > same. (especially since /proc/ has been known to change...)
Linux does have the sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF)...
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