On 3 Mar 2001, Michael Rothwell wrote:
> pyhsmem = `free | grep Mem | tr -s "/ / /" | cut -f2 -d" "`
% strace free 2>&1 |grep /proc
open("/proc/cpuinfo", O_RDONLY) = 3
open("/proc/uptime", O_RDONLY) = 3
open("/proc/stat", O_RDONLY) = 4
open("/proc/meminfo", O_RDONLY) = 5
I.e. it still uses procfs. Which is perfectly fine, just encapsulate
it in initscripts so that information would be obtained when system
is booted. Should work for people who don't want procfs around after
that.
Cheers,
Al
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