Re: [gentoo-dev] what to do when an ebuild needs loads of RAM?

[Paul de Vrieze]

On Friday 19 November 2004 11:41, Duncan Coutts wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 04:03 -0500, Aaron Walker wrote:
> > | function get-memory-total() {
> > |         cat /proc/meminfo | grep MemTotal | sed -r
> > | "s/[^0-9]*([0-9]+).*/\1/" }
> >
> > eureka! what happens when the host OS doesn't have /proc/meminfo?
>
> [snip]
>
> > I have no problem with what the above code is trying to achieve, just
> > how it goes about doing so.  At the very least, it shouldn't assume
> > the existence of a procfs.
> >
> > If you do decide to handle your problem by checking the amount of
> > RAM, please find an alternate way (obviously 'free' can't be used
> > either) or at the very minimum check for file existence.
>
> Can you think of a nice portable way of doing this test? That would be
> really helpful.

Maybe testing for the existence of /proc/meminfo can be used at least, and 
passing if it doesn't exist.

Paul

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