On Sat, Jun 05, 1999 at 04:25:08PM -0400, Michael Bacarella wrote: > > I *like* /proc > > What are the arguements for excluding it? Forgive me if I'm not very > informed, I recall someone saying that the Hurd is probably going to do > away with /proc
You are not very informed. The whole Hurd is based on /proc done right. It's just that it is not the kernel's privilege to attach a program to a file inode. These are called translators. Furthermore, it's questionable if and when /proc will be imitated as it is provided by linux, because this assumes a single authority for providing such information (the kernel). As you may know, the Hurd is based on a microkernel and there is no such single authority. Anyway this doesn't belong here. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09
