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SubjectRe: ARMS WAVING!!! Proposal to fix /proc dainbrammage.
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One advantage to human-readable /proc that hasn't been mentioned yet:

If ps, netstat, etc., are unavailable, I can still examine things. I can even
do it with nothing but shell builtins, in case /lib is destroyed too,
assuming I have a root shell running somewhere. (cd /proc; for i in [1-9]* ;
do cd $i ; exec <cmdline ; cat ; echo ; cd .. ; done ; exec</dev/tty, and so
on)

I wouldn't call this a critical feature, but it is kinda cool...

--
Alan Curry

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