Re: /proc/cpuinfo verbiage differ unnecessarily between ports...

Andreas Schwab (schwab@suse.de)
01 Sep 1999 10:44:57 +0200

Steve Dodd <dirk@loth.demon.co.uk> writes:

|> On Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 05:17:23PM -0700, david parsons wrote:
|>
|> > Why not? I'd say that the contents of /proc/cpuinfo would be very
|> > interesting to tools, because it's what the operating system thinks
|> > it's running on.
|>
|> Would it not be more sensible to introduce a syscall or some such thing to
|> do it?

How about extending sysinfo(2)?

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