Thread: /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; 
}

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.