On Thu, 2002-08-01 at 00:49, Dave Jones wrote:

On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 01:37:17AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
 > > Add a proper ABI now, and userspace can transition to it
 > > over the next 4 years.
 > 
 > Which is what I've been talking to Ulrich about.

I thought this was the idea behind sysconf(__SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF) ?

sysconf is implemented in glibc. Right now this is done by poking around
in /proc/cpuinfo. The kernel doesn't export the data very nicely. With
2.5 and Rusty's hot swappable processors we need to export the data even
more explicitly.