Why not? I'd say that the contents of /proc/cpuinfo would be very
interesting to tools, because it's what the operating system thinks
it's running on.
As much as I hate to say it, this is probably a case where backward
compatability could be overlooked; enough of the tools that do use
/proc are already very fragile and blow up every time the kernel
goes up a major version to make it seem a good idea to blow up the
published interface and replace it with a consistant interface
across platforms.
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david parsons \bi/ thinking of procinfo and ps -u today :-(
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