On Thu, Nov 09, 2000, To [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about "Re: number of CPUs":
> On Wed, Nov 08, 2000, Adi Stav wrote about "Re: number of CPUs":
> >...
> > But why is it so crucial not to parse a file? I can't imagine anyone
> > checking for the number of CPUs in the inner loop of their programs :)
> >
> > system( "exit `grep ^processor /proc/cpuinfo | tail -1 | cut -d : -f 2`" )
> >
> > Would probably work (I don't have SMP machine to check it).
>
> This will obviously not work - unless your intention was to print the number
> of processors on the standard output, rather than actually using it in
> your program :)
Sorry - I was too quick on my reply. What you wrote should in fact work -
I didn't notice the "exit" part. This is not to say that it's a very
efficient method of doing it... And it will not work on machines with over
126 CPUs :)
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