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


From: Jim Meyering
Subject: Re: [PATCH] md5: accepts a new --threads option
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:18:51 +0100

Jim Meyering wrote:

> Giuseppe Scrivano wrote:
>
>> Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> If nobody is already working on it, I can start doing it.
>>
>> What about the name?  "ncores" or "ncpus" are fine?
>
> Here are some longer candidates:
>
>   count-cores
>   count-cpus
>   cpu-count
>   core-count

Actually, "cpu" seems too ambiguous, so let's rule those out.
That leaves:

  ncores
  count-cores
  core-count

Any others?
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