5 Aug
2014
5 Aug
'14
2:06 p.m.
On 4 Aug 2014, at 23:23, Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
I get the arguments above but I don't buy
'em. linux really got /proc
right in terms of usefulness. Digging binary blobs out of the kernel
and translating them sucks. I've done, I've written kmem drivers for
ps, I understand how it works. I far prefer the pure ascii model that
Linux has.
I agree with this, with one caveat: there are things which exist in /proc which should be
in a standard format (extensible if need be) but are not. I forget the particular example
but I've written patches for, I think, node.js which essentially came down to
"add yet another special case for /proc/<whatever>", when there was just
no reason that the thing should not have been in a standard format in the first place.
Certainly as a user of Solaris and Linux, Linux's /proc is just far more useful
(though I like pmap).