Followup to: <200002222116.IAA03334@mobilix.atnf.CSIRO.AU>
By author: Richard Gooch <rgooch@atnf.csiro.au>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> 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.
>
The memory devices would be inadvisable to move, since they are "well
known" device locations. ALL Unices have them. We used to have
/dev/core, for some reason it was moved to /proc/kcore for no apparent
reason, except that perhaps gdb wanted the size information.
-hpa
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