Re: [proposal] /dev/debug to host kcore (and others in the future)

From: Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
Date: Tue Feb 22 2000 - 16:16:11 EST


Tigran Aivazian writes:
> Hi Richard,
>
> I thought of moving /proc/kcore to devfs and there is no obvious
> place to put it. Why not create a /dev/debug/ and put kcore (and
> profile) in there? In the future one can have ktrace (or whatever
> it was called from IKD patches, can't remember).

How is /proc/kcore different from /dev/kmem or one of those devices,
anyway? (I haven't bothered to look)

I'm considering moving the "memory" devices to /dev/mem anyway.
/proc/kcore, if it is actally different, would belong there, IMO.

                                Regards,

                                        Richard....
Permanent: rgooch@atnf.csiro.au
Current: rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca

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