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Re: originality in linux



On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 02:29:17AM +0530, Nick Hill wrote:
> 2. /proc - yeah, ok, sysctl is the Right Thing To Do (tm), but linprocfs
> is l33t.

/proc/pid/* existed in other UNIXes before Linux, IIRC. What Linux
did new was to stick a whole bunch of other stuff in /proc/meminfo
etc. Some people think it's a bad idea.

	-Arun