On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 08:08:40PM +1000, Nathan Hand wrote:
> On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 12:55:04AM -0800, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> >
> > Procfs != devfs. Get that through your head first. Let's see what /proc is for:
> > I see a bunch of dirs for processes, some text files telling me about my system,
> > and a tree corrisponding to sysctl()s. Those ascii text files are decent for the
> > admin, but they've never been designed for programs to use them
>
> Actually, that's exactly what they were designed for.
I supposed I should have been clearer - I was talking about files like /proc/devices, cpuinfo,
filesystems, modules, etc. I've never heard anyone say those were for programs to use -
most of them are duplicates of ioctl() and sysctl() interfaces.
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