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Subject: Re: Why is procfs deprecated in favor of procstat?
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>>>>> On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 18:35:02 -0800, Julian Elischer said:
> 
> While sysctl is 'ok' I will admit that the procfs variant is a bit 
> more convenient to use.
> simply because you can enumerate the damned tree  without seeing all 
> the contents.

If by contents you mean values then try the sysctl -N option (though that
still does a recursive enumeration).

__Martin