On 12 Aug 2001 13:54:02 +0000, José Luis Domingo López wrote: > 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. This is sad. The whole point of the filesystem under Unix is to provide a unified namespace for all the system objects you might want to talk about. I can see adding a new filesystem for kernel parameters that's completely seperate from /proc, but getting rid of the ability to have access to them directly through the filesystem is a bad idea IMHO. :-(, -- The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed. -- Alexander Hamilton -- Eric Hopper (hopper omnifarious org http://www.omnifarious.org/~hopper) --
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