From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: Nico Schottelius <nico-mutt@schottelius.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sysfs vs. procfs, devfs vs. ufs ?
Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2003 19:28:44 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1068337724.27320.217.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031107032856.GS25124@schottelius.org>
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 22:28, Nico Schottelius wrote:
> what is the intention of sysfs?
> is it a replacement/addition to procfs?
sysfs is a filesystem used to export the device model (a tree of data
structures representing the devices in a system) to user-space in a
clean and efficient way.
procfs is a more generic (and less elegant) filesystem for exporting
anything to user-space.
sysfs only replaces procfs in so far as relevant interfaces, such as
those related to hardware. process information should remain in procfs.
/proc is not going anywhere.
Robert Love
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-09 0:29 UTC|newest]
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2003-11-07 3:28 sysfs vs. procfs, devfs vs. ufs ? Nico Schottelius
2003-11-09 0:28 ` Robert Love [this message]
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