Hi,
I was initially reticent to reply to this thread at this time, because some details might be out of the scope of the GSoC project. But I think that those questions are important to consider in the design of a new procfs implementation, and the project description was very summary, so I decided to post them anyway:
Given that even Linux walks away from placing non-process related data into in /proc, slowly putting it into /sys instead, IMHO this is going in the wrong direction.
I once thought that it might be useful to export procfs via NFS, but our current implementation doesn't support it. Is this something that a new implementation should allow?
While I once tried that (quite long ago), it turned out that the buffering the NFS client does somewhat conflicts the dynamic nature of /proc and /kern. However, maybe it could work better with NFSv3 or even NFSv4? Ciao, Wolfgang -- [email protected] Wolfgang Solfrank
