Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Apr 1997 19:25:02 -0700 (PDT) | From | Dan Hollis <> | Subject | Re: procfs problems |
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On Thu, 17 Apr 1997, Thomas Koenig wrote: > >Let me object on this : most things in /proc must be human-readable > >without looking up a manpage. I for one often use this information while > >setting up a system, using a boot/root disk. > I STRONGLY second this. > > Just recently, I had a system with a hardware problem. I booted it > up (with the Debian rescue disk) and could then look at all the > /proc entries at my leisure.
It is certainly possible to write the information in /proc so that it is mostly human readable, but not so incredibly verbose that it is now.
I think, that these huge text tables in static unswappable memory in the kernel has absolutely no business being there.
Your rescue disk could easily have a 'lspci' program on it.
-Dan
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