Re: /proc file system

Dee-Ann LeBlanc <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.usability.annoyances
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> 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_.

I'm sorry, but anything that requires me to go digging around in the
kernel's C code to figure out is an annoyance. ;) Though there are a
number of files in /proc that are pretty understandable out of the gate.

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Dee-Ann LeBlanc, RHCE
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