David Greenman wrote:
>
> Generally we've been moving towards using sysctl for reading kernel data.
> procfs/kernfs is usually the wrong tool for the job in most cases (my
> subjective opinion of course).
And afterwards, if someone really wants it, you could reimplement
procfs using sysctl, taking advantage of the fine-grained access that
has already been implemented.
Not that procfs gains you anything over sysctl, except some sort of
compability with Linux.
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