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Subject: Re: system call for finding the number of cpus??
From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: "Kuppuswamy, " Priyadarshini <Priyadarshini.Kuppuswamy@compaq.com>
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On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 17:18, Kuppuswamy, Priyadarshini wrote:

>   I have a script that is using the /cpu/procinfo file to determine the
>  number of cpus present in the system. But I would like to implement it 
> using a system call rather than use the environment variables?? I couldn't
> find a system call for linux that would give me the result. Could anyone
> please let me know if there is one for redhat linux??

Linux does not implement such a syscall.  Note

	cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep processor | wc -l

works and is simple; you do not have to do it via script - execute it in
your C program, save the one-line output, and atoi() it.

	Robert Love

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