25 Sep
2017
25 Sep
'17
5:36 a.m.
On Sun, 24 Sep 2017, Bakul Shah wrote:
There are just a few potential users of /proc and they
were already
using other facilities. plus /proc is an optional facility. All this
conspired to make /proc less useful in FreeBSD. Unused code is in danger
of being garbage collected in FreeBSD :-)
Whatever happened to the Unix philosophy of everything looking like a
file? Adding more system calls is the Windoze (or perhaps Penguin) way of
doing things.
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suffer."