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SubjectRe: /proc/cpuinfo format - arch dependent!
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On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 12:21:21AM -0700, Paul Jackson wrote:
> Yes - it's all there. Sometimes the ways to discover it aren't pretty,
> but that's one thing that libraries are good for - to wrap such detail.

And then when the kernel adds something new, you update one library
rather than 1000s of applications.

Perhaps making it hard to get at without a certainl library is a good
way to avoid too many applications poling at it just because they can.

Len Sorensen
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