Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 16:24:51 -0500 From: "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> To: Peter Berger <peterb@telerama.lm.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: ProcFS Message-ID: <9601132124.AA31264@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.91.960113151509.10796A-100000@ivory.lm.com> References: <Pine.BSI.3.91.960113151509.10796A-100000@ivory.lm.com>
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<<On Sat, 13 Jan 1996 15:16:03 -0500 (EST), Peter Berger <peterb@telerama.lm.com> said: > 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? If you are not doing kernel development (or running -current, which amounts to the same thing), there is no need to; the mount program will automatically load it when you boot. David has already explained why you need to have it mounted. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant
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