[linux-lvm] Writing forward compatible applications using /proc
José Luis Domingo López
jdomingo at internautas.org
Sun Aug 12 13:54:02 UTC 2001
On Saturday, 11 August 2001, at 23:57:18 -0400,
Jason Tackaberry wrote:
> [...]
> I am curious if it's a silly idea to write an application that relies on
> the data in /proc? Do the kernel developers attempt to keep the data
> and format provided in /proc as stable as possible? Or is it fair game
> for trivial changes that could break applications that parse it? Should
> I use ioctl instead?
>
As far as I know, there are plans to remove much of the thingss that
currently appear under /proc. It seems that only information about
processes currently running will remain under /proc.
Kernel parameters, system information, kernel variables and kernel
tunables will probably disappear and will be replaced by some sort of
user-space application that will allow query and modfication of kernel
values and tunables. Something similar to Solaris' ndd, AFAIK.
Greetings.
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