Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] /proc/sysvipc | | Date | Sat, 25 Jul 1998 09:27:41 -0300 | | From | "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <> |
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In message <Pine.LNX.3.96.980725160455.360A-100000@dragos.future.ro>, Dragos Ac ostachioaie writes: +----- | On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Riccardo Facchetti wrote: | > On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Dragos Acostachioaie wrote: | > > The patch provides /proc/sysvipc, which reports informations about IPC | > > resources: shared memory segments, message queues and semaphore arrays. | > parameter. You will find some useful commands like SHM_INFO, SHM_STAT, | > SEM_INFO, SEM_STAT, MSG_INFO and MSG_STAT. | > To have all the infos about them there is an user space program called | > ipcs(8). | | "The IPC_INFO, SHM_STAT and SHM_INFO control calls are used | by the ipcs(8) program to provide information on allocated | resources. In the future, these may be modified as needed | or moved to a proc file system interface." +--->8
Let's put it this way: the documented SYSVIPC interface provides SYSV-compatible access to IPC information. /proc is the Linux-native way to get at such things, so /proc access should be supported on Linux.
I'll also note that we have both sysctl and /proc/sys; is /proc/sys, then, redundant and "not very useful"?
-- 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 carnegie mellon university (bsa@kf8nh is still valid.)
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