From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dnied@tiscali.it (Dario Niedermann) Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2014 11:48:50 +0200 Subject: [TUHS] procfs on FreeBSD (WAS: Re: Unix taste) In-Reply-To: References: <1407183693.25672.for-standards-violators@oclsc.org> Message-ID: <53e0a882.N3iwTZ4QkyuPoI/I%dnied@tiscali.it> Andy Kosela 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/