From: dnied@tiscali.it (Dario Niedermann)
Subject: [TUHS] procfs on FreeBSD (WAS: Re: Unix taste)
Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2014 11:48:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53e0a882.N3iwTZ4QkyuPoI/I%dnied@tiscali.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALMnNGgrKMX8GFG7AB+zRi3RvNvmAEVyBdDMzjpvmW3xchpvEw@mail.gmail.com>
Andy Kosela <akosela at 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.
--
Dario Niedermann. Also on the Internet at:
gopher://retro-net.org/1/dnied/ , http://devio.us/~ndr/
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-08-05 9:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-04 20:21 [TUHS] Unix taste (Re: terminal - just for fun) Norman Wilson
2014-08-04 22:24 ` A. P. Garcia
2014-08-04 22:23 ` [TUHS] /proc - linux vs solaris Larry McVoy
2014-08-04 23:11 ` Larry McVoy
2014-08-05 1:26 ` A. P. Garcia
2014-08-05 11:55 ` A. P. Garcia
2014-08-05 12:06 ` Tim Bradshaw
2014-08-05 12:37 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2014-08-05 2:41 ` [TUHS] Unix taste (Re: terminal - just for fun) Andy Kosela
2014-08-05 3:32 ` Warner Losh
2014-08-05 9:48 ` Dario Niedermann [this message]
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