Re: /proc/cpuinfo format - arch dependent!
From: Ralf Baechle (ralf_at_linux-mips.org)
Date: 04/20/05
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Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:31:09 +0100 To: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 09:24:17AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> If you change it now, how many tools would break?
>
> Maybe if you can list what statistics you think should be common to all
> systems, that could be presented in another file that is always the same
> format on each architecture.
>
> Certainly looking at arm and i386, other than the bogomips field there
> is nothing in common between their cpuinfo contents. THey don't even
> capitalize bogomips the same either.
>
> I doubt this is really doable. If all you want is the number of CPUs
> then something like sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF) should do.
Which in glibc is implemented by counting the number of processor: records
in /proc/cpuinfo, so simply Nico's parser seems to be insufficient.
Ralf
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