Re: binary /proc fs
Dan Hollis (goemon@sasami.anime.net)
Fri, 30 May 1997 12:06:17 -0700 (PDT)
On Fri, 30 May 1997, Laszlo Vecsey wrote:
> There was a discussion about extra bloat in the kernel for /proc, the idea
> that it should be put in userspace, (afterall we have commands like free
> and so on) and about formatting. So how about restructuring the /proc file
> system (or creating a new fs) that works in binary only? And then
> maintaining all the proc utilities in a central place, much the way the
> kernel is done, to avoid compatibility problems for future versions.
The sysconfig interface is a good example of one way to do this.
But the idea was not that /proc was bloat, but that /proc was poorly
organized and designed. See http://www.anime.net/~goemon/procfs.html to
see a short writeup I did on this.
-Dan