[haiku-development] Re: GSOC project suggestion
- From: Urias McCullough <umccullough@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:21:20 -0700
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 2:17 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)
Don't forget OS X which has it via FUSE:
http://osxbook.com/book/bonus/chapter11/procfs/
I've run into several tools that prefer it over other methods for
obtaining various info about the machine's environment and running
processes. These tools often have a fallback mechanism which is less
elegant and often make assumptions.
I don't necessarily see this as "Unix" but rather as a powerful way of
getting process/configuration info about the system.
Anyhow, that's my input - I wouldn't care if it was/wasn't implemented
personally - but I don't see how it "harms" the usability of Haiku by
giving it another tool that other unix-like OSes already have.
- Urias
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