Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Improving the Unix API | Date | Mon, 28 Jun 1999 11:10:15 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> As far as I know, only FreeBSD has a string-based sysctl implementation.
Nod.
> Something which always confused me about Linux' procfs - what have all > these kernel variables got to do with process state? We used to have a > kernfs which was intended for this kind of thing but it rotted after > people started extending sysctl for the purpose.
About as much as having a /usr/bin for the slower binaries on the 40Mbyte moving head disk has relationship to /usr nowdays. /proc is basically both process and machine state in Linux. It got expaneded on.
Alan
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