Re: system call for finding the number of cpus??

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 05:25:08PM -0400, 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.

I guess there is at least one architecture on which it breaks..
See http://people.nl.linux.org/~hch/cpuinfo/ for details.