From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 14 09:39:54 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 827B616A420 for ; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 09:39:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mozolevsky@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.169]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15DF713C447 for ; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 09:39:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mozolevsky@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id y2so1224799uge.37 for ; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 01:39:52 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; bh=Pelb3XUWENc5y2EQVxIRd8DaxVwOs/kTf+ADt4BgE6A=; b=PiH7Xtko5SW/mIn5CKhvaaDCOMImpuKzrVIdvt6bfI7lCdle5dHGXeMg+HyFDlIWo+7abo+xTuPEPm3adklCFBnfKWP7EW/UshCykhGzZHjdVUGGapYmewpsSYm/ULLTAkj2HczA84EJAbmgd0PRaciOICU7z+kRbfVU8EX4C/E= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=QV4HqRxWxpT7OAXITtqT7RjVI+KGDnUmMrI8T9V92KSUbqIPazrS34DV+UdfliBCTiqI04ukMtDKixePRTmNzrHq1OKiKKdhL78auj4SAIBwsiLfTvkuK7VBjUT/Nun7oRnbZlvJMbpprkZFoKNZ0Jn2XrBkDOdfqm7Kf7Zdu9E= Received: by 10.67.30.13 with SMTP id h13mr3513103ugj.45.1200303592469; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 01:39:52 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.66.248.11 with HTTP; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 01:39:52 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 09:39:52 +0000 From: "Igor Mozolevsky" Sender: mozolevsky@gmail.com To: "Nathan Lay" In-Reply-To: <478AE741.1000105@comcast.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1200197787.67286.13.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20080113182457.GN929@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <200801141254.20400.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <478AE741.1000105@comcast.net> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 0b5ab03166de5636 Cc: current , freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Joe Marcus Clarke , Peter Jeremy , Kostik Belousov Subject: Re: RFC: Adding a hw.features[2] sysctl X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 09:39:54 -0000 On 14/01/2008, Nathan Lay wrote: > cat'ing /dev/cpuinfo sounds reminiscent to Linux /proc. No it doesn't - it's a perfectly fine Unix way of doing things... The purpose of /dev is to provide an interface to the devices on the machine, (query-capable-)CPU is a device... Having /proc as an interface to the kernel on the other hand... Igor :-)