RFC: Adding a hw.features[2] sysctl

[Igor Mozolevsky]

On 14/01/2008, Nathan Lay <nslay at comcast.net> wrote:

>  cat'ing /dev/cpuinfo sounds reminiscent to Linux /proc.

No it doesn't - it's a perfectly fine Unix way of doing things... The
purpose of /dev is to provide an interface to the devices on the
machine, (query-capable-)CPU is a device... Having /proc as an
interface to the kernel on the other hand...

Igor :-)