Re: Patch for 2.2.10 (Quelle surprise!)
Marcus Meissner (marcus@jet.franken.de)
Sat, 3 Jul 1999 21:31:09 +0200
In article <Pine.LNX.4.10.9907031916190.334-100000@revue.linux-kernel-tahallah.demon.co.uk> you write:
>Here's a patch that implements a new syscall on the i386 architecture
>along with a small test program. I'd love to hear your opinions on this.
>
>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.
I do not consider that horrid. I consider another system call horrid.
Parsing /proc/ for such stuff is good(tm). Think scripting languages, like
shell or perl.
Ciao, Marcus
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