Jim Meyering <j...@meyering.net> 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
