Alex> On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
>> > Basically it just returns a structure filled out with processor >
>> information a la 'cat /proc/cpuinfo', except that this is done via
>> a > syscall - no more horrid /proc parsing.
>>
>> That is exactly the sort of thing that sysctl() was designed for.
Alex> OK, I've heard the same thing from a number of people. Looks
Alex> like I'll be spending some time re-implementing the work I've
Alex> done as a sysctl().
Alex> Thanks for all the input, guys.
You still haven't explained why a syscall/sysctl is needed for this
when all the information can be obtained by parsing /proc/cpuinfo
Jes
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