Followup to: <20000729141700.A13656@gnu.org>
By author: Adam Sampson <azz@gnu.org>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 02:32:49PM +0200, Hildo Biersma wrote:
> > > Why not have /proc/sysconf?
> >
> > /proc/sysconf will never be able to handle non-kernel configuration
> > settings. Linus mentioned settings for 'bc' and 'expr' and I don't want
> > to teach these to a kernel.
>
> Yes, that's what I meant---have both. /proc/sysconf would contain the
> kernel-specific values; /etc/sysconf would contain the userspace-specific
> values. That way, you don't have to remember to edit /etc/sysconf if you
> make a kernel configuration change.
>
I believe I already mentioned that the sysctl (/proc/sys) mechanism is
the preferred way to export these kinds of data tokens from the
kernel. /etc/sysconf could refer the file entries in /proc/sys where
appropriate, or we could have /proc/sys/kernel/sysconf.
-hpa
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