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Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 12:37:40 -0400
From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
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Subject: Re: /proc/cpuinfo format - arch dependent!
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Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 12:21:21AM -0700, Paul Jackson wrote:
> 
>>Yes - it's all there.  Sometimes the ways to discover it aren't pretty,
>>but that's one thing that libraries are good for - to wrap such detail.
> 
> 
> And then when the kernel adds something new, you update one library
> rather than 1000s of applications.
> 
> Perhaps making it hard to get at without a certainl library is a good
> way to avoid too many applications poling at it just because they can.

The advantage of /proc is that it works from C, Java, Perl, Python, etc. 
Oh, and humans, the reason all the application run.

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