/Retreiving information from /proc

Hi there, I'm working on a program to report the behaviour of a linux kernel by printing out variables in certain files which are in /proc/

I currently have fgets reading it good just can't get strstr working properly. The current value of cpu_type is (null).

Code:

#include <stdio.h> 
#include <string.h> 
char get_cpu_model() 
{
   FILE* fp;
   char buffer[4096]; 
   char* match; 
   char cpu_type;
   size_t bytes_read;
   
   fp = fopen("/proc/cpuinfo", "r");
   while(!feof(fp)){
    fgets(buffer,sizeof(buffer),fp);
    match = strstr(buffer, "model name"); 
    printf("%s",buffer);
   }
   fclose (fp);
   int counter = 0;

   printf("\nhere1\n");
   printf("%s",match);
   if (match == NULL){
     printf("\nNo Match\n");
     return 0; 
   } else {
   sscanf (match, "model name      : %s", &cpu_type); 
   return cpu_type;
   }
} 

char main() 
{
   printf ("CPU Model Name: %s\n", get_cpu_model()); 
   return 0; 
}

main should return an int, not a char. You shouldn't use feof to control loops. You aren't actually doing anything with strstr. You aren't using it to break your loop or anything, so what exactly do you expect it to magically do?


Quzah.

I expect it to read my mind and do what i'm thinking. But, in reality what should i use instead of feof?

Originally Posted by jack500

I expect it to read my mind and do what i'm thinking. But, in reality what should i use instead of feof?

For your question regarding feof, read this and this.