Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 8 Apr 2002 22:27:42 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: system call for finding the number of cpus?? |
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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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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