Why does Python want to read /proc/meminfo

[Ian Pilcher]

On 05/06/2017 12:51 AM, dieter wrote:
> Personally, I doubt that you will find a reference.
> Instead, I assume that the reference comes from the C runtime library.
> It might hepl optimize memory management to know about "meminfo" details.

You're right.  Seems that it's glibc's qsort().

So it seems that any service written in Python (or any other program
that uses qsort) needs to be given read access to most of /proc or deal
with the (unspecified) consequences of not allowing qsort() to determine
the amount of memory in the system.

Delightful.

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