[haiku-development] Re: GSOC project suggestion

  • From: Truls Becken <truls.becken@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 09:45:04 +0100

Ingo Weinhold wrote:

> * The directory layout of /proc in Linux looks a bit ugly. Directories for
> processes are mixed with all kind of other stuff. If we had to copy that
> layout for compatibility, I'd be less inclined to like the idea.

From the Wikipedia article, it seems that Plan 9 only has the process
directories, and that this is the only thing common between all
implementations (but even this probably has different extensions on
each system). The other stuff was added by Linux. The article also
says that FreeBSD is phasing out procfs.

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