In article <linux.kernel.E126y9I-0000X0-00@the-village.bc.nu>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
>> torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds) writes:
>> >I'll accept a patch that turns sysctl into a proc-only thing.
>> Linus,
>> how about systems where there is no choice to have a /proc Filesystem?
>
>For embedded systems I can see it is an issue, /proc is simply too large
>to include just for a few constants.
Just how large IS proc, anyway, and is this even noticable in the
steadily increasing size of the kernel?
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david parsons \bi/ It is difficult to fit a 900k ramdisk and a 790k
\/ kernel on a 1.44mb floppy.
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