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- From: Stephen Usher <Stephen.Usher@earth.ox.ac.uk>
- Subject: Re: /dev/kmem
- Date: Wed, 20 Jul 1994 09:34:03 +0100 (BST)
- In-Reply-To: <199407200701.AA14498@hieper.math.ruu.nl> from "Richard Huveneers" at Jul 20, 94 09:01:22 am
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- >I think of porting a BSD-like "ps" and "top" to Mint.
- >I know "ps" and "top" already exist for Mint, but they don't support the usual
- >options.
- >
- >Since "ps" normally consults /dev/kmem, I can do two things:
- >
- >- Change "ps" to consult /proc
- >- Implement /dev/kmem
- >
- >The last one seems the most desireable solution to me, since Mint would become
- >more BSD-ish in that way.
- >
- >Now my question is this: Why was /proc implemented into Mint?
- >Has /proc advantages over /dev/kmem?
- >Was /proc ment to be replaced by a /dev/kmem implementation at the end?
- >
- >If /dev/kmem is better than /proc, I will give it a try,
-
- The problem with the current MiNT /proc is that it's neither fish nor foul
- and is pretty well useless. I must say that it like the way that the /proc
- filesystem under Linux 68k works, each process is a subdirectory of /proc
- containing files such as "cmdline", "environment" etc. Very nice.
-
- >Richard.
-
- Steve
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