Re: /proc file system
Dee-Ann LeBlanc <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.usability.annoyances |
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> 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. -- Dee-Ann LeBlanc, RHCE Lots of things Linux http://www.Dee-AnnLeBlanc.com/