Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: What /proc should contain [was: /proc/driver/microcode] | | Date | Fri, 25 Feb 2000 12:20:26 +0000 (GMT) | | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> Nope, the state of the art back then was to poke around in /dev/kmem, > guided by a possibly obsolete symbol table, and blissfully ignorant of > any locking or such.
That was originally considered to be the right solution. In the earlier days of Unix keeping something like proc out of kernel space was the right choice (remember V7 was 28K, System III about 60K).
> Whenever any of the kernel-internal tables changed, ps and friends > died a horrible death or started generating strangely incorrect > information, and there was a week of confusion in linux-kernel.
[linux-activists], but yes I still remember the ps and the 'library of the week' stuff
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