On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 04:45:40PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >> [Also, remove stray "(s)"s that do not belong there, and properly
> >> declare threads, avoid using "CPU" (which is an overloaded term
> >> meaning either thread, or package/NUMA node).]
> >
> >avoid using "CPU(s)" is not backwardly compatible change :-(
>
> Why not? Grepping in output is not very portable - the less so when
> programs are translated - and I can see why sysfs chose to demand that
> there be just one value per file.
Unfortunately, we don't have
lscpu --get=<valuename>
so grep/awk is probably the right way how to parse the output. I think
this way is pretty unusual in scripts.
Karel
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