Re: /proc file system

Ken Arromdee <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.usability.annoyances
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 24 Aug 2003, Nat Ersoz wrote:
> The /proc fs is a thing of beauty.  Because each kernel module is free
> to use the proc fs for its own purposes, you have to read the kernel
> source code to figure what it does.  That's all there is to it.
> 
> Reading the source code is *not* a Linux annoyance.  It is _by_design_.

By that reasoning the animated paper clip in Microsoft Word isn't an annoyance
either.
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