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Joel Becker wrote:
> 
> On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 05:24:37PM -0700, Jonathan Lundell wrote:
> > FWIW (perhaps not much in this context), the POSIX way is sysconf(_SC_CLK_TCK)
> >
> > POSIX sysconf is pretty useful for this kind of thing (not just HZ, either).
> 
>         Well, how many hundred things on Linux are available from /proc
> but not from sysconf or the like?  :-)

Those hundert things which you either don't need or which should go to
syslog
or shouldn't be sysconf and nothing else.