Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: system call for finding the number of cpus?? | Date | 8 Apr 2002 14:58:44 -0700 |
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Followup to: <20020408222742.A28352@infradead.org> By author: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 05:25:08PM -0400, Robert Love wrote: > > Linux does not implement such a syscall. Note > > > > cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep processor | wc -l > > > > works and is simple; you do not have to do it via script - execute it in > > your C program, save the one-line output, and atoi() it. > > I guess there is at least one architecture on which it breaks.. > See http://people.nl.linux.org/~hch/cpuinfo/ for details. >
Then that architecture should be fixed.
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