Re: system call for finding the number of cpus??

David Ford (david+cert@blue-labs.org)
Mon, 08 Apr 2002 18:59:04 -0400


# grep -c "^processor" /proc/cpuinfo
2

-d

Robert Love wrote:

>
>Linux does not implement such a syscall. Note
>
> cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep processor | wc -l
>
>works and is simple; you do not have to do it via script - execute it in
>your C program, save the one-line output, and atoi() it.
>
> Robert Love
>

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