Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 11:10:15 +0100 (BST) From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> To: dfr@nlsystems.com (Doug Rabson) Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, viro@math.psu.edu, sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us, fare@tunes.org, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, tech-kern@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Improving the Unix API Message-ID: <E10yYMo-0004sP-00@the-village.bc.nu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906281058070.80685-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> from "Doug Rabson" at Jun 28, 99 11:00:29 am
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> As far as I know, only FreeBSD has a string-based sysctl implementation. Nod. > Something which always confused me about Linux' procfs - what have all > these kernel variables got to do with process state? We used to have a > kernfs which was intended for this kind of thing but it rotted after > people started extending sysctl for the purpose. About as much as having a /usr/bin for the slower binaries on the 40Mbyte moving head disk has relationship to /usr nowdays. /proc is basically both process and machine state in Linux. It got expaneded on. Alan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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