Re: RFC: Adding a hw.features[2] sysctl

From: Daniel O'Connor <doconnor_at_gsoft.com.au>
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 13:12:43 +1030
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Igor Mozolevsky wrote:
> > Except you can't do that from a shell script.
> > (eg wrapper script to run optimised binaries)
>
> cat /dev/cpuinfo and parse away!

Why is sysctl so bad?
It works, there is a patch to do it and it matches up with how 99% of 
all other kernel info is exported to userland.

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