Re: /proc/cpuinfo verbiage differ unnecessarily between ports...

Kurt Garloff (garloff@suse.de)
Wed, 1 Sep 1999 01:22:41 +0200


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On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 12:12:30AM +0200, Jes Sorensen wrote:
> Since none of the info in /proc/cpuinfo should be of interest to any
> tools it should be fairly irrelevant. It's been different since the
> first days of the /proc filesystem and never caused problems before.

Look harder.
glibc2.1 has a parser for /proc/cpuinfo to determine the number of CPUs for
get_nproc().

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