> The way /proc works has been introduced by Plan 9 in the first half of the > 80s. > What Linux added as an abuse of the /proc filesytem in principle is a Plan 9 > idea too. It makes sense to have something similar, but please please _not_ > inside the /proc tree.
Linux is not Plan 9 (yet). What the Linux /proc subsystem does is nothing to do with what Sun, Plan 9, Microsoft or your pet hamster do. Nor is it remotely meaningful to argue about it that way. Using /sys is also extremely inappropriate as many BSD derived folks use /sys already and it would make LSB on non Linux systems unneccessarily hard. > On MacOS X which also uses the IEEE Boot architecture the same beast > will be shown via a 'ioreg -l' The PC world doesnt have an IEEE boot architecture. The ARM world doesn't the HPPA world doesn't, the MIPS world mostly doesn't, the SH3 world doesnt.
