Re: [PATCH] towards a /proc-less user space

From: Matthew Kirkwood (weejock@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Mar 08 2000 - 18:30:24 EST


On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Erik Andersen wrote:

> > > [andersen@slag andersen]$ strace lsmod 2>&1 | grep proc
> > > open("/proc/modules", O_RDONLY) = 3

> > matthew@jim:~$ strace /sbin/lsmod 2>&1 | grep proc

> [andersen@slag andersen]$ dpkg -l modutils strace | tail -n2
> ii modutils 2.3.9-3 Linux module utilities.
> ii strace 4.2-4 A system call tracer.

matthew@timmy:~$ rpm -q strace
strace-3.99.1-2

> I don't know where you got your strace, but I suspect it is broken.
> If it is indeed working, I would dearly love to see the interface
> lsmod used to get the kernel module information.

'tis attached.

I'm not disputing that it doesn't work for you, but it would
make some sense to fix the existing interface if it's broken,
rather than add new ones.

Matthew.



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