Re: per-cpu statistics (Re: CVS commit: src)

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:49:01 -0700
Jason Thorpe <thorpej%shagadelic.org@localhost> wrote:

> 
> On Apr 11, 2008, at 3:09 AM, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> 
> > I would be unhappy with that, because it makes shell scripts much
> > messier.  (I went through that recently writing a hotkey script to
> > display battery levels.)
> 
> It would be collated by the kernel when the user asks for it; user  
> code would still see one counter.
> 
That's fine; thanks.


                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb