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The point of such fake filesystems (like /proc or /sys) is that everyone immediately understands them. Yes, you could have a syscall for /proc, but it is more c

• Thaxll 2y ago
  Understand how? You still need to understand the path layout, something is still parsing that path so it needs to be valid.
  • pfix 2y ago
    discoverability - but then proc is not the best example for that - a lot of proc seems to be inpenetrable without documentation access - for discovery and poking around you won't need a dedicated tool, just `cat` or `less` or `vim`