From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Writing forward compatible applications using /proc From: "Eric M. Hopper" In-Reply-To: <20010812135402.A452@dardhal.mired.net> References: <20010812135402.A452@dardhal.mired.net> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-4z4oXTy6nzqU1Za6Avm/" Date: 12 Aug 2001 12:10:31 -0500 Message-Id: <997636232.20870.2.camel@monster.omnifarious.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 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: To: linux-lvm@sistina.com --=-4z4oXTy6nzqU1Za6Avm/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 12 Aug 2001 13:54:02 +0000, Jos=E9 Luis Domingo L=F3pez 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. >=20 > 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. This is sad. The whole point of the filesystem under Unix is to provide a unified namespace for all the system objects you might want to talk about. I can see adding a new filesystem for kernel parameters that's completely seperate from /proc, but getting rid of the ability to have access to them directly through the filesystem is a bad idea IMHO. :-(, --=20 The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed. -- Alexander Hamilton -- Eric Hopper (hopper@omnifarious.org=20 http://www.omnifarious.org/~hopper) -- --=-4z4oXTy6nzqU1Za6Avm/ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQA7driHG4QeWBeRdS8RAur+AKCgYJ8bVTF4MMeluXVrStbuarh7TACgvXPG EWDA/H5J8Zv1NbXuEO4Ef5c= =hSkX -----END PGP MESSAGE----- --=-4z4oXTy6nzqU1Za6Avm/--