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

J.A. Magallon (jamagallon@able.es)
Mon, 8 Apr 2002 23:58:14 +0200


On 2002.04.08 Davide Libenzi wrote:
>On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Kuppuswamy, Priyadarshini wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>> 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??
>
>sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF);
>

I din't really trusted you, so digged inside includes till bits/confname.h
Why the h*ll the manpage about sysconf does not talk about that ?????

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