Re: How to know HZ from userspace?

From: Jonathan Lundell (jlundell@pobox.com)
Date: Wed May 30 2001 - 19:44:39 EST

At 1:38 AM +0100 2001-05-31, Joel Becker wrote:
>On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 05:24:37PM -0700, Jonathan Lundell wrote:
>> FWIW (perhaps not much in this context), the POSIX way is
>>sysconf(_SC_CLK_TCK)
>>
>> POSIX sysconf is pretty useful for this kind of thing (not just HZ, either).
>
> Well, how many hundred things on Linux are available from /proc
>but not from sysconf or the like? :-)
>
>Joel

Lots. Maybe we oughta have /proc/sysconf/... (there's no reason
sysconf() can't be a library reading /proc). 

-- 
/Jonathan Lundell.
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