Re: LSB1.1: /proc/cpuinfo
On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> What about checking yourself :)
If I only had all of the hardware ....
> I have collected a number of examples on:
>
> http://people.nl.linux.org/~hch/cpuinfo/
Thanks, this is very helpful.
> Maybe you should introduce something like uname -f (f for features) in
> LSB and make this backed by /proc/cpuinfo in the current implementation?
I would prefer to document something that already exists, and not require
that a new feature has to be implemented by everyone. Also, it's slightly
easier for an application to just open a text file instead of having to popen()
a command.
> This way applications do not have to worry about changes to kernel
> internals.
That is one of our goals 8-).
Stuart
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