Patch for upclient 5.0b8 on linux to show proper cpu info

PS2 YaBasic — Tue, 17 Jun 2003 06:41:08 -0000

The upclient client for linux is rather clumsy with cpu
info, in the way that it checks the fields by their first
token only. That is why the current upclient does not
show the cpu id correctly at all, it shows sth like
GenuineIntel Mhz.

I created a patch and posted it on

http://www.ijdens.com/~pbijdens/patches/upclient-
5.0b8-cpuinfo.patch

This turns the "GenuineIntel MHz" strings into
GenuineIntel Pentium II (Klamath) 233 MHz, or
AuthenticAMD AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor 501 MHz
instead.

apply the patch by going to the upclient directory and
typing sth like patch -p1 < upclient-5.0b8-cpuinfo.patch

Locale != C caused trouble reading uptime

Pit Palme — Thu, 23 Jan 2003 15:23:37 -0000

I've run upclient-5.0b7 with active locales, locale set to
de_DE.

Upclient exited in stats-lnx.c line 247, because the

fscanf() for two floating values in "/proc/uptime" failed.

That's normal as the values in "/proc/uptime" are decimal
delimited by a period, the German locale made the
decimal delimiter the comma.

Attached patch simply sets locale to "C", reads the
values and sets locale back to "" (environment decides).

This helped here, if there's a better way I don't insist on
this patch ... if the issue is solved I don't care how :-)

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Patch for upclient 5.0b8 on linux to show proper cpu info

Locale != C caused trouble reading uptime