On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Ben Scott <dragonh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Thomas Charron <twaf...@gmail.com> wrote: >> It really suprised me that I couldn't find this information in the >> /proc fs anywhere. > What do you think this is, MS Windows? :) We've got a perfectly > servicable tool (dumpe2fs) that will tell us the information. Why do > we need a kernel API for it? :)
Just seems like something they'd have under thar. > Aside: On non-Linux systems, /proc is usually *just* process info. > Linux extended it to contain miscellaneous system info, e.g., CPU and > memory. Then later networking info. Then disk info. Then ways to > *change* that stuff. Then a web browser. Er, maybe not that last. > But /proc on Linux definitely suffers from creeping featurism. :) I always call it /proc, but I'd really expect it to be in /sys. -- -- Thomas _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
