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Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 02:19:27 +0200
From: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 02:30:57AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
 > sysconf is implemented in glibc. Right now this is done by poking around
 > in /proc/cpuinfo.

Gotcha, that's what I feared.

 > The kernel doesn't export the data very nicely. With
 > 2.5 and Rusty's hot swappable processors we need to export the data even
 > more explicitly.

driverfs objects perhaps ? Or something more lightweight ?

        Dave.

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