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On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 04:03 -0500, Aaron Walker wrote: |
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> | function get-memory-total() { |
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> | cat /proc/meminfo | grep MemTotal | sed -r "s/[^0-9]*([0-9]+).*/\1/" |
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> | } |
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> eureka! what happens when the host OS doesn't have /proc/meminfo? |
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> I have no problem with what the above code is trying to achieve, just how it |
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> goes about doing so. At the very least, it shouldn't assume the existence of a |
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> procfs. |
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> If you do decide to handle your problem by checking the amount of RAM, please |
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> find an alternate way (obviously 'free' can't be used either) or at the very |
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> minimum check for file existence. |
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Can you think of a nice portable way of doing this test? That would be |
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really helpful. |
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Duncan |
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