Re: PROPOSAL: /proc standards (was dot-proc interface [was: /proc

[Patrick Mochel]

On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Erik Andersen wrote:

> On Tue Nov 06, 2001 at 11:33:49PM +0100, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> > On Tue, 2001-11-06 15:28:26 -0700, Erik Andersen <[e-mail]>
> > wrote in message <[e-mail]>:
> > > On Tue Nov 06, 2001 at 07:24:13PM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > > > PROCESSOR=0
> > > > VENDOR_ID=GenuineIntel
> > > > CPU_FAMILY=6
> > > > MODEL=6
> > > > MODEL_NAME="Celeron (Mendocino)"
> > > > .....
> >
> > PROCESSOR=1
> > ...
> >
> > > > . /proc/cpuinfo
> > >
> > > I think we have a winner!  If we could establish this
> > > as policy that would be _sweet_!
> >
> > What do you expect on a SMP system?
>
> How about something like:
> NUMBER_CPUS=8
> VENDOR_ID_0=GenuineIntel
> CPU_FAMILY_0=6
> MODEL_0=6
> MODEL_NAME_0="Celeron (Mendocino)"
> ...

(Though I think all caps variables are ugly, I can concede)

How about

$ cat /proc/cpus/0

PROCESSOR=0
VENDOR_ID=GenuineIntel
CPU_FAMILY=6
MODEL=6
MODEL_NAME="Celeron (Mendocino)"
.....

$ for i in `ls /proc/cpus/` ; do
	cat $i
  done
...

	-pat