Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 2 Jun 2001 20:27:04 +0200 | | From | Remi Turk <> | | Subject | Re: Configure.help is complete |
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On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 08:45:17AM -0700, Jonathan Lundell wrote: > >> It allows a general interface to the kernel that does not require new > >> syscalls/ioctls and can be accessed from user space without specifically > >> compiled programs. You can use shell scripts, java, command line etc. > > > >Yes, and it's also totally non standardised. > > It clearly fills a need, though, and has the distinct side benefit of > cutting down on the proliferation of ioctls. Sure, it's non-standard > and a mess. But it's semi-documented, easy to use, and v. general. > What's the preferred alternative, to state the first question another > way? For any single small project/driver, creating a new fs simply > isn't going to happen. > -- > /Jonathan Lundell.
If I understand Al Viro correctly we'll get per driver filesystems in 2.5 (based on ramfs) which you can union-mount on /proc (possibly using autofs) to get the current /proc tree.
Happy Hacking.
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