[TUHS] UNIX of choice these days?

Dario Niedermann dario at darioniedermann.it
Sat Sep 23 20:03:20 AEST 2017


Il 23/09/2017 alle 11:36, Steve Mynott ha scritto:

> procfs still exists in FreeBSD and can be added to fstab but isn't
> mounted by default after an install.

But does the kernel put it to good use?

Since they deprecated procfs, most FreeBSD software will tend to not
expect it, and just ignore it.

> Generally the BSDs (and OS X) don't seem to actively maintain procfs
> and it has been remove from OpenBSD.

Indeed. Last time I checked, NetBSD was the holdout. I hope they don't
follow suit.

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