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Subject: Re: system call for finding the number of cpus??
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# grep -c "^processor" /proc/cpuinfo
2

-d

Robert Love wrote:

>
>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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