Re: How to find number of processors?

[Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de>]

Steve M. Robbins dixit:

>#elif defined(__APPLE__) || defined(__FreeBSD__)

This would work if defined(__FreeBSD_kernel__) too.

>        return sysctlbyname("hw.ncpu",&count,&size,NULL,0)?0:count;

Although CTL_HW and HW_NCPU probably would work better,
and you could just include <sys/sysctl.h> and check for
these two, then use sysctl(3) instead of sysctlbyname()
to also save the additional lookup.

bye,
//mirabilos
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