linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote: > Shouldn't it just be another system call? 223 is currently unused. You > could fill that up with __NR_nr_cpus. The value already exists in > the kernel.
You forget about Linus' credo "there shall be no sysconf-like syscall". I'd be all for sys_sysconf or even the limited sys_nr_cpus although ideally then we'd have two syscalls (probed CPUs, active CPUs, in which case sys_sysconf is the better choice). -- ➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, CA ❖
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