Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 8 Mar 2000 20:23:06 -0700 | From | Erik Andersen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] towards a /proc-less user space |
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On Thu Mar 09, 2000 at 09:55:42AM +0900, Rainer Mager wrote: > > I'm new to this list and haven't been following this whole restructuring of > /proc closely at all but I have one comment that might be relevant. Where I > work we do a lot of Java programming. Some of it requires access to Linux > system information. Up to now we very easily just read and parse the various > /proc files since they are just text. If these files go away (even if their > functionality is replaced by other programs) this makes things much harder > for Java since it would require doing nasty RMI things. > > Or, restated, getting system information from "plain" text files is a good > thing. Please don't break it.
Those of us that do embedded stuff want the option of turning off /proc, because it is big and fat. Turning off /proc has not been an option till now, because so many important pieces of imformation could previosly only be obtained by reading /proc. If I have the ability to turn off /proc for my applications and instead use /dev/ps, then good for me. You still have the ability to turn off /dev/ps and use /proc.
Nobody loses,
-Erik
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