How to get the number of CPUs in Linux using C?

Question

Is there an API to get the number of CPUs available in Linux? I mean, without using /proc/cpuinfo or any other sys-node file...

I've found this implementation using sched.h:

int GetCPUCount()
{
 cpu_set_t cs;
 CPU_ZERO(&cs);
 sched_getaffinity(0, sizeof(cs), &cs);

 int count = 0;
 for (int i = 0; i < 64; i++)
 {
  if (CPU_ISSET(i, &cs))
   count++;
  else
   break;
 }
 return count;
}

But, isn't there anything more higher level using common libraries?

Answer 1

#include <unistd.h>
long number_of_processors = sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN);

Answer 2

#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/sysinfo.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    printf("This system has %d processors configured and "
        "%d processors available.\n",
        get_nprocs_conf(), get_nprocs());
    return 0;
}

https://linux.die.net/man/3/get_nprocs

Answer 3

This code (drawn from here) should work on both windows and *NIX platforms.

#ifdef _WIN32
#define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN
#include <windows.h>
#else
#include <unistd.h>
#endif
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <errno.h>


int main() {
  long nprocs = -1;
  long nprocs_max = -1;
#ifdef _WIN32
#ifndef _SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN
SYSTEM_INFO info;
GetSystemInfo(&info);
#define sysconf(a) info.dwNumberOfProcessors
#define _SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN
#endif
#endif
#ifdef _SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN
  nprocs = sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN);
  if (nprocs < 1)
  {
    fprintf(stderr, "Could not determine number of CPUs online:\n%s\n", 
strerror (errno));
    exit (EXIT_FAILURE);
  }
  nprocs_max = sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF);
  if (nprocs_max < 1)
  {
    fprintf(stderr, "Could not determine number of CPUs configured:\n%s\n", 
strerror (errno));
    exit (EXIT_FAILURE);
  }
  printf ("%ld of %ld processors online\n",nprocs, nprocs_max);
  exit (EXIT_SUCCESS);
#else
  fprintf(stderr, "Could not determine number of CPUs");
  exit (EXIT_FAILURE);
#endif
}