Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 14:25:42 -0700 From: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly) To: peterb@telerama.lm.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ProcFS Message-ID: <9601132125.AA08589@emu.fsl.noaa.gov> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.91.960113151509.10796A-100000@ivory.lm.com> (message from Peter Berger on Sat, 13 Jan 1996 15:16:03 -0500 (EST))
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>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Berger <peterb@telerama.lm.com> writes:
Peter> What is Procfs
Process filesystem ... a way of representing running programs as nodes
in the filesystem tree.
Peter> and do I care?
That's up to you, really.
Peter> If I'm not examining the state of processes by hand, does
Peter> it offer any performance improvement?
The performance improvement I could see is reduced programmer's time
accessing this information.
Peter> Why should I keep this configured into a kernel?
You shouldn't. It works just fine as an automatically loaded kernel
module. It's not in my kernel and yet ``cat /proc/curproc/status''
works just fine.
--
Sean Kelly
NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory, Boulder Colorado USA
Shelve all your books with the spines facing the wall. Complain
loudly that you can never find the book that you want.
-- One of 120 ways to annoy your roommate.
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