Jim Henderson wrote:
>> Why in windows it's ok for povray
>> to automatically use all available CPUs but in linux it's not?
> 
> The thing that I would be led to wonder is if using /proc/cpuinfo is an
> x86 thing or if that's portable for Linux across all the platforms the
> kernel can be built on.  Does S/390 support providing that info?  PPC? 
> zSeries?

It is not just Linux, it is the other Unix variants as well. Remember that
while there is a binary distributed for Linux, the same source code is
portable across most Unix variants. If you Google for it, you will quickly
find that there is no universally common way of detecting this in such a
case. Sad but true.

	Thorsten

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