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On Nov 19, 2004, at 4:41 AM, Duncan Coutts wrote: |
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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 |
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>> "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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> [snip] |
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>> I have no problem with what the above code is trying to achieve, just |
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>> how it |
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>> goes about doing so. At the very least, it shouldn't assume the |
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>> 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 |
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>> RAM, please |
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>> find an alternate way (obviously 'free' can't be used either) or at |
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>> 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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Why not a sysctl call? as mentioned above, not all systems have /proc |
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> Duncan |
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