From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: akosela@andykosela.com (Andy Kosela) Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2017 15:46:29 +0200 Subject: [TUHS] UNIX of choice these days? In-Reply-To: References: <20170923091704.GD10152@darioniedermann.it> Message-ID: On Saturday, September 23, 2017, Steve Mynott wrote: > On 23 September 2017 at 10:17, Dario Niedermann > > wrote: > > Il 20/09/2017 alle 02:39, Dave Horsfall ha scritto: > > > >> Definitely FreeBSD, because it's solid, has thousands of ports, > >> and well, is BSD... > > > > I have been a user in the past, but I just can't forgive FreeBSD for > > abandoning the proc filesystem :-( > > procfs still exists in FreeBSD and can be added to fstab but isn't > mounted by default after an install. > > Generally the BSDs (and OS X) don't seem to actively maintain procfs > and it has been remove from OpenBSD. > > -- > 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott > > > This is not true. Procfs has been deprecated in FreeBSD since at least 2012. https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/sys/fs/procfs/procfs.c?view=log And replacement for procfs is not sysctl, but rather ptrace(2). https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2011-February/010765.html I am one of those that also did not like that. There is some magical simplicity in the way procfs is implemented -- it spells real UNIX to me. --Andy -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: