Re: Patch for 2.2.10 (Quelle surprise!)

Jes Sorensen (Jes.Sorensen@cern.ch)
04 Jul 1999 10:30:54 +0200


>>>>> "Alex" == Alex Buell <alex.buell@tahallah.demon.co.uk> writes:

Alex> On Sat, 3 Jul 1999, Mitchell Blank Jr wrote:
>> If you think parsing /proc/cpuinfo is too hard to do in each
>> program, look into adding that functionality to libproc.

Alex> *What* kernel bloat? Old kernel is 534902 bytes, this kernel is
Alex> 535098 bytes. Hardly bloat. And I bet I could improve on that.

It's pure kernel bloat, all the information is available via
/proc/cpuinfo, so it is totally redundant. Basically there is no need
for this as a system call.

Jes

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