From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 00:35:13 +0200 From: Wichert Akkerman Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Writing forward compatible applications using /proc Message-ID: <20010813003513.B30146@cistron.nl> References: <20010812135402.A452@dardhal.mired.net> <997636232.20870.2.camel@monster.omnifarious.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <997636232.20870.2.camel@monster.omnifarious.org>; from hopper@omnifarious.org on Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 12:10:31PM -0500 Sender: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Errors-To: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" To: linux-lvm@sistina.com On 12 Aug 2001 13:54:02 +0000, Jos� Luis Domingo L�pez wrote: > As far as I know, there are plans to remove much of the thingss that > currently appear under /proc. It seems that only information about > processes currently running will remain under /proc. The name /proc already suggests it is a filesystem for processes, not kernel configuration. > Kernel parameters, system information, kernel variables and kernel > tunables will probably disappear and will be replaced by some sort of > user-space application that will allow query and modfication of kernel > values and tunables. Something similar to Solaris' ndd, AFAIK. >From what I remember the idea is to move all the no-process stuff from /proc to (an)other filesystem(s), /kernel or so. Wichert. -- _________________________________________________________________ / Nothing is fool-proof to a sufficiently talented fool \ | wichert@wiggy.net http://www.liacs.nl/~wichert/ | | 1024D/2FA3BC2D 576E 100B 518D 2F16 36B0 2805 3CB8 9250 2FA3 BC2D |