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Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 17:44:39 -0700
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From: Jonathan Lundell <jlundell@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: How to know HZ from userspace?
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At 1:38 AM +0100 2001-05-31, 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?  :-)
>
>Joel

Lots. Maybe we oughta have /proc/sysconf/... (there's no reason 
sysconf() can't be a library reading /proc).
-- 
/Jonathan Lundell.