Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 1 Sep 1999 02:52:45 +0100 | From | Steve Dodd <> | Subject | Re: /proc/cpuinfo verbiage differ unnecessarily between ports... |
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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? Surely having the kernel format up nice tables for /proc, and then applications reading and parsing it all back again, is a bit pointless. Leave the files in /proc for humans. We've got sysctl for tunable parameters, is there a parallel that could be used for read-only info?
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