Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 19 Apr 1997 06:04:34 -0700 (PDT) | From | Dan Hollis <> | Subject | Re: procfs problems |
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On Sat, 19 Apr 1997, Christopher Horn wrote: > Dan Hollis wrote: > > > I think the design goal behind the sysctl interface was different. While > > > it could probably be used to eliminate some of the proc files like > > > cmdline and cpuinfo, there are many others it can not easily handle. > > Like? > pci, mounts, swaps, ioports, interrupts, devices, ksyms, etc... > basically things that list multiple entries, and things that contain > calculated values. You would end up writing just as much code to handle > them either way.
devices, interrupts, ioports could be easily converted, IFF sysctl allows dynamic building of the /proc/sys filesystem heirarchy. I'm still investigating this.
Calculated values can be supported though, since the API defines callbacks for displaying data types.
-Dan
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