Jes Sorensen writes:
>Since none of the info in /proc/cpuinfo should be of interest to any
>tools it should be fairly irrelevant. It's been different since the
>first days of the /proc filesystem and never caused problems before.
I don't consider that a good argument... But that may be just me. I
mean, why shouldn't /proc/cpuinfo be of any interest to any tools? It
may be that it isn't because it can't be parsed in a portable manner.
There is information in there that isn't available in /proc/stat.
But since /proc/stat calls that chip in the big socket a "cpu", I'd at
least consider changing the string in the i386 /proc/cpuinfo from
"processor" to "cpu". I haven't checked to see if the other ports use
something other than "cpu", though.
Anyway, this is just a pedantic thing. After all, if no tools use it,
it shouldn't hurt to change it and make it consistent, now would it?
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