Marcin Dalecki writes:
> Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> sysctl is deprecated. It's useful in one way only: it has some nice
>> functions that can be used to add a block of /proc names. However, it
>> has other downsides (allocating silly numbers etc - there should be no
>> need for that, considering that the /proc namespace is alreayd a
>> perfectly good namespace).
>
> Are you just blind to the neverending format/compatiblity/
> parsing/performance problems the whole idea behing /proc induces inherently?
I'd expect a pure kernel programmer to be blind to this.
The problems with assigning numbers may well seem worse.
> My favorite examples for how broken they are
>
> /proc/stat -- the information there is entierly *broken* misleading and
> incomplete. (leftover from early days.)
Have an alternative? I need this for "top" display and HZ calculation.
> /proc/cpuinfo -- same here static data. uname is since the beginnging
> the proper interface for this stuff.
This could be formatted once. The code to produce this could be
marked as init code.
> /proc/ksyms -- entierly redundant and not used by the modutils.
This is used for WCHAN.
> /proc/kmsg -- entierly redundant to syslog.
Sure, except that /proc/kmsg supplies the syslog via klogd.
> root:/proc# cat meminfo
> total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
> Mem: 64577536 62787584 1789952 20643840 1339392 17186816
> Swap: 139821056 36478976 103342080
> MemTotal: 63064 kB
> MemFree: 1748 kB
> MemShared: 20160 kB
> Buffers: 1308 kB
> Cached: 16784 kB
> SwapTotal: 136544 kB
> SwapFree: 100920 kB
>
> Wonderfull!!!! The same data twice, albeit no one of them easly
> parsed! Easly parsed? By what? AWK? SED? or should the procps
> utilities beeing implemented in damn PERL? (Some loosers who
> don't know C would apreciate this, certainly) !!!!!
Feel free to kill the old values at the top.
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