From: "Daniel Bünzli" <daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch>
To: David Allsopp <dra-news@metastack.com>
Cc: "caml-list@inria.fr" <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Cross-platform cpu count
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2011 12:03:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALgo1Q+wPkvsHYQpgsPW3W2M1pbDMb=Jgtwg4zi7RSsDh6=TLw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E51C5B015DBD1348A1D85763337FB6D9C242FE12@Remus.metastack.local>
> It won't - Sys.os_type returns "Cygwin" and getconf isn't in Cygwin either - http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-12/msg00435.html (actually, it may be now - I haven't upgraded my Cygwin in a while - but it'll be a recent addition)
Ok thanks. Apparently it may eventually [1].
> Personally, even for something where it's unimportant, I'd be nervous relying on an environment variable (which can be edited...)
I'm even more nervous about calling command line tools. The right way
would be to use sysconf(3) or systcl(3), but Sys or Unix doesn't
provide them.
Best,
Daniel
[1] http://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin-patches@cygwin.com/msg05220.html
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-02 10:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-02 0:04 Daniel Bünzli
2011-09-02 0:38 ` malc
2011-09-02 0:47 ` Daniel Bünzli
2011-09-02 7:39 ` David Allsopp
2011-09-02 10:03 ` Daniel Bünzli [this message]
2011-09-02 12:51 ` malc
2011-09-02 13:05 ` David Allsopp
2011-09-02 13:42 ` malc
2011-09-02 7:51 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2011-09-02 8:19 ` David Allsopp
2011-09-02 14:58 ` Richard W.M. Jones
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