Erik,
> Solaris needed that because Solaris' /proc/ file system contains
mostly (all?) binary data.
From what I can see, Solaris' /proc file system is a filesystem to describe PROCcesses. That it became useful to describe other things is history I don't quite know about...it's one of the differences between Linux and Solaris that orginally caught me out.
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