> > You still haven't explained why a syscall/sysctl is needed for this
> > when all the information can be obtained by parsing /proc/cpuinfo
>
> Obviously you haven't tried this in a cross-platform manner. (or you
> wrote the libc 6 sysconf() hack and think your code works)
Precisely. I have to maintain separate #ifdefs of code that parses
/proc/cpuinfo for each architecture that Linux runs on. Using sysctl()
would be much more architecture independent thus I can write code once
compile on many.
I've changed my mind and removed Jes Sorenson from my kill-filter, he
might have something interesting to say...
Cheers,
Alex
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