[TUHS] procfs on FreeBSD (WAS: Re: Unix taste)

[Dario Niedermann]

Andy Kosela <akosela at andykosela.com> wrote:

> Interestingly, we at FreeBSD got rid of /proc in favor of procstat(1)
> and ptrace(2).  I am still not too sure if it was the Right Thing(r)
> to do though.

It wasn't, IMO. It's a departure from "everything is a file".

A tenet which - if anything - should be more widely embraced, rather
than discarded (I'm looking at you, X11 !)

In fact, that's a major FreeBSD peeve of mine.


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