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From: Dan Pop <Dan.Pop@cern.ch>
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 22:10:21 +0000
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Two IA-64 Linux bugs
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On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, Bill Nottingham wrote:

> Dan Pop (Dan.Pop@cern.ch) said: 
> > 
> > This is implemented by counting the lines starting with "CPU#" in
> > /proc/cpuinfo.  If the kernel guys change the format of that file, it
> > might break again.
> 
> Is there any reason why this reads /proc/cpuinfo and not /proc/stat?
> /proc/stat is at least consistent across architectures...

The right person to answer this question is the glibc maintainer, who
happens to be a colleague of yours :-)

Dan