Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 13:12:43 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: "Igor Mozolevsky" <igor@hybrid-lab.co.uk> Cc: Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org>, current <current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: RFC: Adding a hw.features[2] sysctl Message-ID: <200801141312.45321.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <a2b6592c0801131838jcde3634le6087d2f784adcbc@mail.gmail.com> References: <1200197787.67286.13.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <200801141254.20400.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <a2b6592c0801131838jcde3634le6087d2f784adcbc@mail.gmail.com>
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--nextPart1711567.ZHXn3Ev659 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Igor Mozolevsky wrote: > > Except you can't do that from a shell script. > > (eg wrapper script to run optimised binaries) > > cat /dev/cpuinfo and parse away! Why is sysctl so bad? It works, there is a patch to do it and it matches up with how 99% of=20 all other kernel info is exported to userland. =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart1711567.ZHXn3Ev659 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBHiswl5ZPcIHs/zowRAidBAJ42J8j7uhynKrAFfcXkpmxXkBnsXACfSGwR 1jY2vyoPtNT/siTXVYwkG60= =SRnr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1711567.ZHXn3Ev659--
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