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SubjectRe: /proc/cpuinfo verbiage differ unnecessarily between ports...
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>>>>> "Henrik" == Henrik Olsen <henrik@iaeste.dk> writes:

Henrik> On 1 Sep 1999, Jes Sorensen wrote:
>> 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.

Henrik> This is not quite correct, this thread springs up regularly,
Henrik> but since none of the people saying that "Someone should
Henrik> fix... " gets to the point where they add " and that someone
Henrik> is me", nothing actually happens.

The only real argument for a standardization so far is the number
processors glibc wants to know. However I am correct that
/proc/cpuinfo has been varying since the beginning of /proc.

Jes

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