Re: Task management

[Gerald Kasner <Gerald.Kasner@Physik.Uni-Magdeburg.DE>]

Decker, Christian R wrote:
> 
> If you are on an NT station ( I assume NT windows cuz win95 doesn't support
> multi-cpu's ) then
> the system call GetSystemInfo will return a C struct filled with all the
> goodies.
> the struct is defined as:  ( winbase.h , kernel32.lib )
> 
> typedef struct _SYSTEM_INFO { // sinf
>     union {
>         DWORD  dwOemId;
>         struct {
>             WORD wProcessorArchitecture;
>             WORD wReserved;
>         };
>     };
>     DWORD  dwPageSize;
>     LPVOID lpMinimumApplicationAddress;
>     LPVOID lpMaximumApplicationAddress;
>     DWORD  dwActiveProcessorMask;
>     DWORD  dwNumberOfProcessors;
>     DWORD  dwProcessorType;
>     DWORD  dwAllocationGranularity;
>     WORD  wProcessorLevel;
>     WORD  wProcessorRevision;
> } SYSTEM_INFO
> 
> On a Unix Box I don't know the call, but i am sure it exists.
> 

Linux : in smp.h 
        extern int smp_num_cpus
        is defined

Gerald