>Let me object on this : most things in /proc must be human-readable
>without looking up a manpage. I for one often use this information while
>setting up a system, using a boot/root disk.
I STRONGLY second this.
Just recently, I had a system with a hardware problem. I booted it
up (with the Debian rescue disk) and could then look at all the
/proc entries at my leisure.
-- Thomas Koenig, Thomas.Koenig@ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de, ig25@dkauni2.bitnet. The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double logarithmic diagram.