Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: procfs problems | Date | Mon, 28 Apr 1997 15:50:14 -0700 | From | Perry Wagle <> |
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Here's my take on the procfs thing:
I want to have my modules add things to /proc (char devices, directories, etc.) so I can talk to the kernel-land stuff from user-land. I'd like the communications to be fast, so will probably avoid ascii streams, but I might get tired of debugging that and opt for "easily machine parsable". I don't find writing PERL (and TK) scripts to present it to humans to be hard. In addition, this keeps some code bloat out of the kernel.
I'd like to avoid gratuitous difference of philosophy from the rest of the stuff in /proc, so I want all that to think my way. B)
I'm starting to think that /proc should be renamed /kernel/proc, and it should be called something like "The Kernel File System". Probably needs a better name though. ("Kernel Services File System"?, ...).
-- Perry
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