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To: Peter Berger <peterb@telerama.lm.com>
cc: questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: ProcFS 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 13 Jan 1996 15:16:03 EST."
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 12:54:00 -0800
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>What is Procfs, and do I care?  If I'm not examining the state of 
>processes by hand, does it offer any performance improvement?  Why should 
>I keep this configured into a kernel?

   It's used by libkvm and thus ps, w, etc, to access other process's memory
(for command args, etc). It's really not optional.

-DG

David Greenman
Core Team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project