Re: taskfs and kernfs

From: Albert D. Cahalan (acahalan@cs.uml.edu)
Date: Mon Dec 18 2000 - 15:51:43 EST


Alexander Viro writes:
> On Sun, 5 Nov 2000, Dave Zarzycki wrote:
>> On Sun, 5 Nov 2000, Alexander Viro wrote:
>>
>>> However, kernfs is _not_ procfs \setminus procfs-proper. It's our current
>>> /proc/sys.
>>
>> Okay. I didn't realize that's what you had in mind when you wrote
>> "kernfs." Mind if I ask why you didn't call it "sysctlfs" or "sysfs?"
>
> Check *BSD.

Meanwhile, the FreeBSD people seem to be about to junk kernfs.
One is supposed to use sysctl. (freebsd-hackers or freebsd-arch
just this week)

I didn't know penguins went dumpster diving in Satan's trash.
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