Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: USB device allocation | Date | Thu, 07 Oct 1999 19:40:18 -0400 | From | "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <> |
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In message <37FB8FBF.23205D85@cs.net.pl>, Martin Dalecki writes: +----- | Oh maybe just doing it the boringly, | stable probed way just wasn't sexy enough for "open source". +--->8
When /proc was introduced, the "boringly stable probed way" involved opening /dev/kmem and grotting around pulling out binary structures from arbitrary addresses in kernel-space, which structures had an annoying tendency to change with every change to the kernel. It was anything *but* stable.
sysctl came much later.
-- brandon s. allbery os/2,linux,solaris,perl allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator kthkrb,heimdal,gnome,rt allbery@ece.cmu.edu carnegie mellon / electrical and computer engineering kf8nh We are Linux. Resistance is an indication that you missed the point.
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