[haiku-development] Re: GSOC project suggestion
- From: Duane Ryan <bailey.d.r@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 07:48:23 -0400
Haiku IS a unix-like system, especially with the advent of the multi
user system. In any case, I think that (from a user's perspective),
/proc would be better implemented through libraries (check!) and
wrapped commands (not happening yet).
Duane
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 5:17 AM, Yu Ziyu <yuziyumail@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procfs,
>
> The following operating environments support procfs:
>
> * Solaris
> * BSD
> * Linux (which extends it to non-process-related data)
> * IBM AIX (which bases its implementation on Linux to improve
> compatibility)
> * QNX
> * Plan 9 from Bell Labs (where it originated)
>
>
> Salvatore Benedetto :
>>
>> 2009/3/23 Yu Ziyu <yuziyumail@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>>
>>> Sorry I'm not familiar with the Haiku os. I found there is not a /proc
>>> filesystem like other unix-like system. Maybe there is some mechanism
>>> similar to /proc filesystem in Haiku.
>>>
>>
>> Ok. First of all, Haiku is not a unix-like system. :-) Plus, I'm not sure
>> but,
>> I thought only linux has it, and if I don't mistake, it is moving to
>> sysfs.
>>
>>> I've discussed with Stephan Aßmus privately. Maybe this is a immature
>>> suggestion.
>>>
>>
>> Personally I don't see any particular benefits for such as feature,
>> but some other
>> devs might.
>>
>> Regards,
>
>
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