[haiku-development] Re: gsoc suggestion of haiku

Oh, I've sent it already.:-)

Stephan Aßmus 写道:

Moving this back to the haiku-development list, so others can chime in. :-)


Yu Ziyu schrieb:
The /proc filesystem is a direct reflection of the system kept in memory and represented in a hierarchal manner. The effort of the /proc filesystem is to provide an easy way to view kernel and information about currently running processes. As a result, some commands (ps for example) read /proc directly to get information about the state of the system. The premise behind /proc is to provide such information in a readable manner instead of having to invoke difficult to understand system calls. 

The /proc fs can be used for system related tasks such as:
Viewing Statistical Information
Finding out Hardware Information
Modifying Runtime Parameters
Viewing and Modifying Network and Host Parameters
Memory and Performance Information
I get these information from here http://linuxgazette.net/issue46/fink.html.
Sorry I'm not familiar with the Haiku os. So I found there is not a /proc filesystem like other unix-like system. Maybe there is some mechanism similar to /proc filesystem in Haiku.
We have our own tools and API to get this information (like our own ps, listarea). I am not sure that there is a high enough need for the /proc file system on Haiku. I may be the wrong person to judge this, though. 

Best regards,
-Stephan


 > Stephan Aßmus 写道:
 >> Hi !
 >>
 >> Yu Ziyu schrieb:
 >>> Hello, I'm a student interesting in gsoc project of Haiku.
 >>> It seems there is not a /proc like filesystem in Haiku os.
 >>> So maybe it's  a good idea to implement a /proc filesystem?
 >>
 >> What would be the immediate benefits to a /proc filesystem? Why do you
 >> want to work on this?
 >>
 >> The reason why I am asking is, in Haiku, the kernel uses node
 >> monitoring for a lot of things, including automatic driver/module
 >> (re-)loading and settings files monitoring. Therefor many types of
 >> changes are being picked up by the kernel, but maybe the /proc
 >> filesystem is used for other things as well, but I am not familiar
 >> with it. Maybe you can elaborate on this some more?
 >>
 >> Best regards,
 >> -Stephan
 >>

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