From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 20 09:38:15 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F321106564A for ; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 09:38:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kellydeanch@yahoo.com) Received: from nm2.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com (nm2.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com [98.138.90.65]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3FDEF8FC0A for ; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 09:38:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [98.138.90.49] by nm2.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 20 Feb 2011 09:25:29 -0000 Received: from [98.138.89.252] by tm2.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 20 Feb 2011 09:25:29 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by omp1044.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 20 Feb 2011 09:25:29 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 664615.88442.bm@omp1044.mail.ne1.yahoo.com Received: (qmail 36052 invoked by uid 60001); 20 Feb 2011 09:25:29 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com; s=s1024; t=1298193929; bh=qAJaGhXFDQwfApf71iCpvgg3e8s9ZAsZsPle/RgJk6c=; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=dLdZICskW07rfxQXWBxRH6jeShiqjga3Rlq8y7qQ9mSI+OIl+Xa70vaP1UG4Bp54ns0+0V9/iegmQ80EIJbqMadYo446tH5mktj4RdLaQ9GymAcyXOekevro+jhLuk3bTqBiQ/9/QJu3Ct6WtPjv8IEw5gLEoZ0q9iwhHPvpdkg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=FgIUuKvZAhDPmNL+0fV6iyhqYcxLQaIod1TirCNPfpNGhryAd0zpKxC7hQ3CnmD8cU+nUDQVx4ebGTu36gx6KH35OlpAEOCZqr37ravlfgsRhsy9t9hdU/geJeW5hPYdlJuInbH0HXAaGqSfD1EpDT060fYLCdbWsmihxYYZ3h8=; Message-ID: <457880.36028.qm@web121501.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> X-YMail-OSG: tqz51WIVM1mFv3uHXYf1mUp6Az0DGUzeP30kfWJ_AvyC0s8 RFVRu4js5HosfsCgVo6aNaNH6t2X03O6CnT8nMscpFTWAlzkquwEkxKnGWX5 UBVe5uUrvT66TpO0hhv1ADWHwF1b2FepJsGCksvTw6aTPqsfzyyRIRMuIqlS yhu_bYBhKkCfYpyZOX8Cg_qSQqhbHQbbNosmJ1Z0a_BWhZJKwW7xMKvciKC7 dO5VsUUwjBTUPL6x0xsvXZE9kqA-- Received: from [173.13.165.123] by web121501.mail.ne1.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 01:25:29 PST X-Mailer: YahooMailClassic/11.4.20 YahooMailWebService/0.8.109.292656 Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 01:25:29 -0800 (PST) From: Kelly Dean To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 14:19:50 +0000 Subject: Why is procfs deprecated in favor of procstat? X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 09:38:15 -0000 http://ivoras.sharanet.org/freebsd/freebsd8.html says that procfs is deprecated in favor of procstat. But Plan 9 says that procfs is the right way to do things. I can't find any explanation why it's deprecated in FreeBSD.