Re: ARMS WAVING!!! Proposal to fix /proc dainbrammage.

Stephen C. Tweedie (sct@redhat.com)
Tue, 3 Nov 1998 15:57:23 GMT


Hi,

On Mon, 02 Nov 1998 10:51:15 -0800, lm@bitmover.com (Larry McVoy) said:

> On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Hans Eric Sandström wrote:
>> It seems to me that you are reinventing the /dev/kstat interface that is
>> present in Solaris. Just do a man kstat on a solaris box...

The sysctl(2) binary interface in Linux is already sufficiently flexible
to support this, and it supports dynamic extensions too.

--Stephen

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/