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No, procfs is also not Linux specific ;-) /proc is a filesystem, so most of us refer to it as 'procfs' for short. In fact, the header file you include a C pro
by binarycrusader 10y ago
No, procfs is also not Linux specific ;-) /proc is a filesystem, so most of us refer to it as 'procfs' for short. In fact, the header file you include a C program in Solaris to use it is '<procfs.h>'.
As I said before, the only thing that's really Linux-specific is Linux chose to represent it as text instead of something machine-parsable.
- pietromenna 10y agoWhich other OS uses procfs?
- konstmonst 10y agoHier is the history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procfs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procfs I think the one from linux was inspire by plan9's implementation.
- pietromenna 10y agoThank you!