On Sat, 3 Jul 1999 19:20:11 +0100 (BST), Alex Buell
<alex.buell@tahallah.demon.co.uk> said:
> 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.
That is exactly the sort of thing that sysctl() was designed for.
--Stephen
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