Re: Linux 2.4.19ac3rc3 on IBM x330/x340 SMP - "ps" time skew

[Alan Cox]

On Thu, 2002-08-01 at 00:49, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 01:37:17AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
>  > > Add a proper ABI now, and userspace can transition to it
>  > > over the next 4 years.
>  > 
>  > Which is what I've been talking to Ulrich about.
> 
> I thought this was the idea behind sysconf(__SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF) ?

sysconf is implemented in glibc. Right now this is done by poking around
in /proc/cpuinfo. The kernel doesn't export the data very nicely. With
2.5 and Rusty's hot swappable processors we need to export the data even
more explicitly.