> I'm very sorry to post this question here but I can't seem to find this info
> anywhere else. I would like to know if there are (I presume there will be)
> any system calls in the Linux kernel to access information on the memory of
> the current system, such as amount of memory used, free, used swap, free
> swap...etc. Much like can be achieved by reading the /proc/meminfo
> file.
I am a newbie to the linux-kernel mailing list; however, I don't think
that system calls to the kernel for status info will be developed.
The point of /proc is to provide user space access to this information
without having to make syscalls to the kernel.
> Also what are the thoughts of people on this list as to using /proc/meminfo
> for this kind of task? I've been seeing some negative posts in other
> mailing lists as to using proc at all, although I think it's quite a nice
> feature.
Granted there is some "overhead" in creating the filehandles, but I
think /proc is the preferred way to go.
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