Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: ARMS WAVING!!! Proposal to fix /proc dainbrammage. | Date | Tue, 27 Oct 1998 19:11:20 -0500 | From | "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <> |
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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.)
-- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering KF8NH carnegie mellon university
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