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Re: [PATCH 2/5] daemons: make sure /proc is properly set up


From: Richard Braun
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] daemons: make sure /proc is properly set up
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 10:36:38 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)

On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 10:34:56PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Passing data around as text is what Plan 9 does, whereas the Hurd uses
> dedicated interfaces and RPCs.

It also uses translators to add easy access to those interfaces through
files.

Personally, I don't care where /proc comes from, or if it's Hurd or not.
We all use it. A lot of programs use it. It makes sense to rely on it.
The problem is actually traditional /proc versus Linux /proc filled with
additional (sometimes unrelated) information. The Hurd shouldn't expect
those, but Debian does.

If I'm right, procfs is outside the main Hurd repository because it's
not the original procfs server. We could probably merge it in one day
though.

-- 
Richard Braun



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