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SubjectRe: ARMS WAVING!!! Proposal to fix /proc dainbrammage.
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In message <m0zYFp9-0007UkC@the-village.bc.nu>, Alan Cox writes:
+-----
| Also /proc is a kernel interface. Its not an ideal API interface as its
| Linux specific. libgtop is a far far saner API interface
+--->8

It doesn't have to be Linux-specific, though. There's no particular reason
xBSD couldn't pick it up, for example, or even Sun or SCO. (Yes, I know the
latter already have a binary process-only /proc, but Sun is already playing
with the way /proc works in Solaris.)

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carnegie mellon university



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