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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