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

J.A. Magallon (jamagallon@able.es)
Mon, 8 Apr 2002 23:51:58 +0200

On 2002.04.08 Robert Love wrote:
>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
>

How about this:

#include <sys/sysinfo.h>
...
//nproc = get_nprocs(); // Available processors
nproc = get_nprocs_conf(); // Configured processors (some can be down...)

(glibc 2.2.5, but i think it keeps working since time ago).

BTW, why linux does not implement sysconf(_SC_NPROC_[CONF,ONLN]) ??

TIA

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