Followup to: <Pine.LNX.4.04.10002241303150.12259-100000@beaker>
By author: Ricky Beam <jfbeam@bluetopia.net>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Andrzej Krzysztofowicz wrote:
> >I think that better resolution for availability of /proc information would
> >be a good thing.
>
> Several have been suggested, but Linus hasn't liked any of them.
>
> Personally, I'd like to see all of the sysconf() information vectored
> directly from the kernel. Make sysconf() a system call (if it isn't
> already) and then make every one of the POSIX/UNIX98 standard variables
> available from the kernel -- most of it should already be in the kernel
> somewhere.
>
> (_SC_NPROCESSORS_* (without parsing cpuinfo) would certainly shut me up :-))
>
NAK!
A lot of these are information about the C library.
Some, definitely, would make sense, but not all.
-hpa
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