Re: How to know HZ from userspace?

From: Daniel Phillips (phillips@bonn-fries.net)
Date: Thu May 31 2001 - 12:12:17 EST

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On Thursday 31 May 2001 02:44, Jonathan Lundell wrote:
> 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? :-)
>
> Lots. Maybe we oughta have /proc/sysconf/... (there's no reason
> sysconf() can't be a library reading /proc).

The other way round would make more sense.

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Daniel
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