Re: Any faster and more efficient way to repeatedly access /proc/*

2007-03-08 Thread Matthew Helsley
On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 16:55 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a faster way to access "/proc/*" other than open it as a file and > reading/parsing contents? e.g. fopen("/proc/stat", "r"); > > In BSD, there is the kvm method of access, which is relatively fast (light > weight) >

Any faster and more efficient way to repeatedly access /proc/*

2007-03-08 Thread mchu
Hi, Is there a faster way to access "/proc/*" other than open it as a file and reading/parsing contents? e.g. fopen("/proc/stat", "r"); In BSD, there is the kvm method of access, which is relatively fast (light weight) In Linux, if I have a daemon that keeps track of these statistics, it's a h