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In message <37FB8FBF.23205D85@cs.net.pl>, Martin Dalecki writes:
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| 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.

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