Re: /proc guidelines and sysctl

Mark H. Wood (mwood@IUPUI.Edu)
Tue, 11 Jan 2000 12:58:10 -0500 (EST)

On Sat, 8 Jan 2000, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
[snip]
> > /proc/cpuinfo -- same here static data. uname is since the beginnging
> > the proper interface for this stuff.
>
> This could be formatted once. The code to produce this could be
> marked as init code.

Even better, it could be broken down into:

/proc/cpuinfo/N/vendor_id
/proc/cpuinfo/N/bogomips
/proc/cpuinfo/N/cachesize

and not formatted at all.

But I'd still like to be able to get it directly in binary and not even
bother with encoding/decoding, at my option.

-- 
Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer   mwood@IUPUI.Edu
"Where's the kaboom?  There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering kaboom!"
	 -- Marvin Martian, 01/01/2000 00:00:00




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