Lennart Sorensen wrote:
On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 12:21:21AM -0700, Paul Jackson wrote:
Yes - it's all there. Sometimes the ways to discover it aren't pretty,
but that's one thing that libraries are good for - to wrap such detail.
And then when the kernel adds something new, you update one library
rather than 1000s of applications.
Perhaps making it hard to get at without a certainl library is a good
way to avoid too many applications poling at it just because they can.
The advantage of /proc is that it works from C, Java, Perl, Python, etc.
Oh, and humans, the reason all the application run.
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