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Re: [PATCH] md5: accepts a new --threads option


From: Giuseppe Scrivano
Subject: Re: [PATCH] md5: accepts a new --threads option
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 12:34:10 +0200
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Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:

>> Hmm, I could see it being useful to specify NCPUs-1 also.
>> I wonder is there a general external method to determine
>> the number of CPUs.
>
> As far as I know, there is nothing portable.
> Want to add another program to coreutils?
> With what Bruno has just added to gnulib's nproc module,
> we should have most platforms covered.

What about a new switch to `arch'?

Giuseppe




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