Re: ARMS WAVING!!! Proposal to fix /proc dainbrammage.
Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery@kf8nh.apk.net)
Tue, 27 Oct 1998 20:10:42 -0500
In message <Pine.LNX.3.96.981027164659.483I-100000@red.prv>, "Mike A.
Harris" w
rites:
+-----
| Is all the info in /proc truly available with syscalls?
| Seriously, I'm asking out of pure curiousity as I'm not an expert
| in this area whatsoever. I'd like to get at the information in
| /proc/cpuinfo, and some other files in /proc, but if there is a
| direct way that doesn't use /proc, I'd sure like to know what it
| is and how to do it. Granted of course that I haven't bothered
+--->8
The old-fashioned way: arm yourself with the kernel symbol table and grovel
around in /dev/kmem. May you have joy of it. IMHO, /proc is light-years
ahead of that crap.
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brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net
system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu
electrical and computer engineering KF8NH
carnegie mellon university
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