Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 07 Jan 2000 14:44:59 +0100 | From | Marcin Dalecki <> | Subject | Re: /proc guidelines and sysctl |
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Keith Owens wrote: > > On Fri, 07 Jan 2000 13:03:01 +0100, > Marcin Dalecki <dalecki@dacotec.net> wrote: > >Are you just blind to the neverending format/compatiblity/parsing/performance > >problems the whole idea behing /proc induces inherently? > >My favorite examples for how broken they are > >/proc/ksyms -- entierly redundant and not used by the modutils. > >/proc/modules -- entierly redundant to the module syscalls. *Not* used by > >lsmod. > > Both are used by ksymoops. That has to run from text files because you > can diagnose an oops on another machine or after the system has been > rebooted, using a copy of /proc/ksyms and modules..
But you could as well fetch the information the same way in ksymoops as it's done in lsmod or insmod of course... so it doesn't have to be done this way.
--Marcin
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