David Holmes wrote:
:
I don't see the property actually being used anywhere these days. No
idea what it may have been used for other than printing the property
for information (there's a Java2D demo that does that).
Is there an API on Linux that will provide the information? Both
Solaris and Windows have a "sys info" call that can provide this
information. But Linux sysinfo is something different.
I checked the pre-OpenJDK history and it seems to have been added in
1999 without explanation. I can only guess that it was something added
for some Solaris service. It doesn't appear to have ever been documented
and I doubt it is used.
-Alan
