5 Aug
2014
5 Aug
'14
11:48 a.m.
Andy Kosela <akosela(a)andykosela.com> wrote:
Interestingly, we at FreeBSD got rid of /proc in favor
of procstat(1)
and ptrace(2). I am still not too sure if it was the Right Thing(r)
to do though.
It wasn't, IMO. It's a departure from "everything is a file".
A tenet which - if anything - should be more widely embraced, rather
than discarded (I'm looking at you, X11 !)
In fact, that's a major FreeBSD peeve of mine.
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