Joerg Schilling wrote: > ... > 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. > > Sun is planning to have /sys with similar backgound in a future version of > Solaris so it wouls make sense to talk to the Solaris kernel kackers to have a > common way to go for the new /sys tree.
FWIW, Rusty Russell is working on a replacement for /proc/sys in Linux; see http://lwn.net/2002/0103/a/proc.php3 I wonder if he's talked to the Solaris people about their /sys plans. > If you like to look for other ideas on how to retrieve the needed information > it makes sense to look at Solaris too. The reason is that Solaris uses > "prtconf" > which is close to the device tree from the IEEE standard Boot loader. > > prtconf -p is giving exactly the IEEE device tree > > prtconf -p -v gives more verbose information. > > If you don't use -p you will see the kernel view of the device tree. > > On MacOS X which also uses the IEEE Boot architecture the same beast > will be shown via a 'ioreg -l' That's interesting stuff, thanks. - Dan
