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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!btnet!btnet-feed3!unlisys!fu-berlin.de!informatik.tu-muenchen.de!main.Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!usenet From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Question 2: /procfs and /kernfs Date: 31 May 1997 21:20:00 GMT Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden Lines: 12 Message-ID: <5mq4m0$d83@innocence.interface-business.de> References: <6XpYTddJo$B@rimki.toppoint.de> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-31809-14 X-Fax: +49-351-3361187 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:6037 chrimek@rimki.toppoint.de (Christoph Rimek) wrote: > Why and for what reason should I compile a kernel with support for > (a) the process file system PROCFS ? ps(1) uses it, albeit not exclusively (i.e., it uses procfs for part of its information, and /dev/mem for another part). -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j