On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: > Nope. We have to use some "C" or "C++" system/function call. Our > programmers don't want to depend on the /proc file system being > available.
Any reasonable Linux system will have the /proc file system. There is no way to do it in C. If there were, it would certainly not be portable, which is the only real disadvantage of using /proc. If they don't want to read /proc/cpuinfo perhaps they would rather read /dev/kmem? :} A complete list of system calls is in /usr/include/asm/unistd.h and/or in /usr/man/man2. If there should happen to be a way, it'll be in one of those two places (but I don't think there is).
