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From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2017 09:36:44 +1000 (EST)
Subject: [TUHS] UNIX of choice these days?
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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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Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU)  "Those who don't understand security will suffer."