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Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Tue, Feb 07, 2017 at 09:05:45PM +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
>  > Tommi Rantala <tt.rantala@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>  > > diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
>  > > index b93fc3a..16fafe8 100644
>  > > --- a/Makefile
>  > > +++ b/Makefile
>  > > @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ VERSION="1.8pre"
>  > >  
>  > >  INSTALL_PREFIX ?= $(DESTDIR)
>  > >  INSTALL_PREFIX ?= $(HOME)
>  > > -NR_CPUS := $(shell grep ^processor /proc/cpuinfo | /usr/bin/wc -l)
>  > > +NR_CPUS := $(shell grep -c ^processor /proc/cpuinfo)
>  > 
>  > Or you could just use nproc(1) ?
>
> Is that in ancient coreutils from crusty old enterprise distros ?
> Judging by user reports, I think we need to support back as far as
> RHEL6 for now.

Good point. It's there on my RHEL 6.8 box, which is the oldest I have
lying around, and looks like it first existed in ~2009. But may not be
worth the potential breakage.

>  > It's in coreutils, but maybe that's not sufficiently portable?
>
> Portability to non-Linux OS's hasn't been a concern so far. 
> I had 1-2 people email me about BSD support but the patches they've sent
> have been about 1% of the work actually necessary so I've just rejected
> them.
>
> It's way easier to just extend iknowthis (or possibly syzkaller)
> than to retrofit it into Trinity at this point.
>
> I admit to having a morbid curiousity to know just how well the various
> BSD's would hold up under a targetted fuzzing run, but the likelyhood of
> me finding time to work on it, or even support it, is practically nil.

I know the feeling, there's another operating system it would be fun to
run on too, but likewise I will never get the time :)

cheers
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