When /proc was introduced, the "boringly stable probed way" involved opening
/dev/kmem and grotting around pulling out binary structures from arbitrary
addresses in kernel-space, which structures had an annoying tendency to
change with every change to the kernel. It was anything *but* stable.
sysctl came much later.
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carnegie mellon / electrical and computer engineering kf8nh
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