Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site oracle.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!hao!hplabs!oracle!abbajay From: abbajay@oracle.UUCP (Dave Abbajay) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Cpu ID under UNIX Message-ID: <138@oracle.UUCP> Date: Thu, 7-Nov-85 11:48:52 EST Article-I.D.: oracle.138 Posted: Thu Nov 7 11:48:52 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Nov-85 06:42:39 EST Organization: ORACLE Corporation, 2710 Sand Hill Rd., Menlo Park, CA 94025 Lines: 17 Keywords: CPU ID The VAX hardware supports the ability of obtaining the CPU id. Under VMS its obtained by the call to LIB$GETSYI. Has anyone done this under UNIX. It is a priveleged instruction, therefore it probably means a kernel hack or a device driver to get it (unless there is another way for a user to execute in kernel mode that I'm not aware of). Any help would be appreciated. As an aside, wouldn't this be an appropriate discussion for, say, mod.std.unix (or is it mod.unix.std). I'd like to see a standard system call in UNIX for doing this (provided hardware support, of course). -- Dave Abbajay Senior Technical Staff ORACLE Corporation (415)854-7350 hplabs!oracle!abbajay