Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Albert D. Cahalan" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.5 PROPOSAL: Replacement for current /proc of shit. | Date | Sun, 4 Nov 2001 00:36:46 -0500 (EST) |
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Martin Dalecki writes:
> Bull shit. Standard policy is currently to keep crude old > interfaces until no end of time. Here are some examples: > > /proc/meminfo > total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached: > Mem: 196005888 60133376 135872512 0 3280896 31088640 > Swap: 410255360 0 410255360 > MemTotal: 191412 kB > MemFree: 132688 kB > MemShared: 0 kB > Buffers: 3204 kB > > The first lines could have gone 2 years ago.
Kill them in the 2.5.0 kernel.
> /proc/ksyms - this is duplicating a system call (and making stuff > easier for intrusors)
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