I went ahead and wrote the patch, but I noticed that it increases the cpu time
of a cat /proc/stat by 30-35% and I wondered if it would be smarter to put it
in it's own file. Only programs that need those counts would benefit from
this extra line/file, and it might be on the whole smarter to just put it
someplace where it can only be called as needed?
Another consideration is how user-space programs will take that change. Will
they happily ignore the new line at the end of /proc/stat, or will they barf
trying to do something with it?
Comments? Suggestions?
Phil
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