Re: [PATCH] 2.5 PROPOSAL: Replacement for current /proc of shit.

Albert D. Cahalan
2001-11-04T05:37:52Z

Martin Dalecki writes:

> Bull shit. Standard policy is currently to keep crude old
> interfaces until no end of time. Here are some examples:
>
> /proc/meminfo
> total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
> Mem: 196005888 60133376 135872512 0 3280896 31088640
> Swap: 410255360 0 410255360
> MemTotal: 191412 kB
> MemFree: 132688 kB
> MemShared: 0 kB
> Buffers: 3204 kB
>
> The first lines could have gone 2 years ago.

Kill them in the 2.5.0 kernel.

> /proc/ksyms - this is duplicating a system call (and making stuff
> easier for intrusors)

This is still used by procps.