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Breaking userspace

Breaking userspace

Posted Jan 29, 2013 19:01 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Breaking userspace by cesarb
Parent article: Poettering: The Biggest Myths

But that's /sys, which is also rather more mutable than the syscall interface.

getconf _NPROCESSORS_CONF (or _NPROCESSORS_ONLN) is the thing to use (or, from a program, sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF) et seq. This is in glibc, so has a stability guarantee that is worth something. Let it figure out where to go for the answer.


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Breaking userspace

Posted Jan 29, 2013 20:10 UTC (Tue) by eru (subscriber, #2753) [Link]

Thanks nix, and khim, that looks like what I need.

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