On Thu, 20 Oct 2011 11:20:37 +0530, Bijju Kranthi Veduruparthi wrote: > My problem with lm_sensors while reading temperature is as follows: > > When I execute sensors command directly at the terminal, the temperature is > output to the terminal correctly. > > But when I execute sensors from a c program using the system() function, the > temperature output to the terminal is more than the actual temperature. > Through a C program the output temperature is always atleast *8 to 10 degree > centigrade higher*. > > Why does this problem arise? No idea, but odds are that you are doing something incorrectly. >I am reading the temperature in an incorrect way through C program? How can we tell when you did not show your code to us? > Is there a better way to obtain temperature through C code? Depends on what you want to do exactly, you didn't tell. Still, I suspect that you'd rather link directly with libsensors and only do the few library calls you need (namely sensors_init, sensors_get_detected_chips, sensors_get_features and sensors_cleanup.) You can look at the code of the sensors command line program for an example. The API is also documented in a man page (libsensors(3).) Linking directly with the library is much more efficient than calling sensors through system(), especially if you are only interested in a few specific values. -- Jean Delvare _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors
