Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 18 Feb 1997 17:29:20 -0500 | From | "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <> | Subject | Re: /proc file system, seems to -not- have standardisation ? |
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From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 22:33:42 +0000 (GMT)
I think it is. Certainly if someone came up with a rational format for all of /proc, that _didnt_ clash with the existing /proc files I would be willing to go for it and to optionally support 'oldproc' files in 2.2, and lose them over a couple of years as the tools knew the newer formats.
Whoever does it had better get it right however - we don't want to do that more than once
Indeed; we can only do this once; I'm also not convinced, by the way, that the current scheme of /proc/<major subsystem> isn't the best way to go. If I'm trying to look at network related things, it's actually much easier if everything is under /proc/net, than if things are scattered all over hell-and-gone.
Likewise, I'm in the middle of creating /proc/tty, which will contain tty-related information, both hardware drivers and tty line discplines.
And, it's pretty obvious that if I'm interesting in something related to the SCSI system, I should look in /proc/scsi.
I'm not convinced that taking parts of /proc/net, /proc/scsi, and /proc/tty, and mashing them all under /proc/dev is necessary progress. It may look good from an Computer Science professor's point of view, but is it really the most convenient way for us to organize the information, and does it make things easier for a user who is trying to navigate through the proc filesystem?
- Ted
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