Re: NSProcessInfo -processorCount, -activeProcessorCount, -physicalMemory

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 13 Nov 2008, at 08:42, Fred Kiefer wrote:

> Having an implementation for these methods would be nice, but going  
> down
> the /proc/something parsing route seems wrong to me. Why not call
> sysconf() with _SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF (on my GUN/Linux system this is
> defined in /usr/include/bits/confname.h).
> This too is a system specific solution, but at least we use glibc
> instead of doing the parsing ourselves. This should save us the  
> problem
> of adopting to a new kernel every time.
>
> We still will need different solutions for non-Linux systems.

I've implemented a combination ... using sysconf if possible and  
falling back to the /proc code (though I'm not sure that /proc will  
ever work where sysconf does not) as well as adding an implementation  
for mswindows.  The code compiles without error but is completely  
untested, so it would be good if anyone interested could try it out  
and report bugs.