[LI] can't read /proc/meminfo

["Guruprasad, Mahendrakar V (IE10)" <GuruprasadM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,
	one strange thing I observed. you can't read /proc/meminfo through
program ( which uses open, read
	kind of stuff to read /proc/meminfo). you even can't determine the
size of file/proc/meminfo through lseek(fd, 0,2)
	May be because the file is continuously changing.
Bye
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Arun Sharma [SMTP:adsharma@xxxxxxxx]
> Sent:	Wednesday, September 29, 1999 4:31 AM
> To:	linux-india@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:	Re: [LI] what is sys call??
> 
> On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 01:04:35PM +0530, Guruprasad, Mahendrakar  V
> (IE10) wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 	What is the system call (not command like 'free')used to find out
> > > amout of memory being used & free
> 
> There isn't any. You'll have to read /proc/meminfo and parse it. This
> is what free does.
> 
> Sucks doesn't it ?
> 
> 	-Arun
> 
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