Re: devfs - the missing link

From: Nathan Hand (nathanh@chirp.com.au)
Date: Mon May 22 2000 - 05:08:40 EST


On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 12:55:04AM -0800, Kent Overstreet wrote:
>
> Procfs != devfs. Get that through your head first. Let's see what /proc is for:
> I see a bunch of dirs for processes, some text files telling me about my system,
> and a tree corrisponding to sysctl()s. Those ascii text files are decent for the
> admin, but they've never been designed for programs to use them

Actually, that's exactly what they were designed for.

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