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The problem is Wikipedia being misleading again. They each support a proc filesystem. There is no single the proc filesystem that they support. A case in poi
by JdeBP 3y ago
The problem is Wikipedia being misleading again. They each support a proc filesystem. There is no single the proc filesystem that they support.
A case in point: FreeBSD's /proc is very different to Linux's /proc, and most of what one would go to /proc on Linux for is obtained via sysctl() on FreeBSD, with a lot less in the way of machine readable → human readable → machine readable busywork formatting and re-parsing involved.
- AndrewDavis 3y agoRoger Faulkner's 1991 paper is good read. The /proc he describes looks alien if you come from a Linux only background. https://www.usenix.org/sites/default/files/usenix_winter91_faulkner.pdf https://www.usenix.org/sites/default/files/usenix_winter91_f...
- yakubin 3y agoBy default, FreeBSD, just like OpenBSD, doesn’t have a /proc. I’m actually running a server without it.