Re: ARMS WAVING!!! Proposal to fix /proc dainbrammage.

david parsons (o.r.c@p.e.l.l.p.o.r.t.l.a.n.d.o.r.u.s)
27 Oct 1998 14:46:03 -0800

In article <linux.kernel.m0zYFp9-0007UkC@the-village.bc.nu>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
>> That's not the fault of the /proc filesystem, but of the people
>> who promiscuously change the format of entries there without
>> considering the consequences.
>>
>> I find it to be easier to poke through /proc, warts and all, than
>
>Also /proc is a kernel interface. Its not an ideal API interface as its
>Linux specific.

Somehow I can't find myself getting too worried about that. The
really nice thing about /proc is that it exports system information
in a way that almost anybody can work with.

> libgtop is a far far saner API interface

If you have tools that use it.

Oh, and to wildly digress. `API interface'? You realize that
that's an Applications Programming Interface interface?

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david parsons \bi/ Which I why I use `published interface'; it's
\/ a lot more descriptive and it DOESN'T make a TLA.

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