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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH][2.6.7-mm5] perfctr low-level documentation
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Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se> wrote:
>
> I'm
> considering Christoph Hellwig's suggestion of moving
> the API back to /proc/<pid>/, but with multiple files
> and open/read/write/mmap instead of ioctl. I believe I
> can make that work, but it would take a couple of days
> to implement properly. Please indicate if you would like
> this change or not.

What would be the advantages of such a change?