Re: procfs problems
Dan Hollis (goemon@sasami.anime.net)
Tue, 29 Apr 1997 10:40:56 -0700 (PDT)
On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, yuri mironoff wrote:
> Why does the machine readable interface have to be through /proc
> at all? All you're doing here is converting binary to ascii and then
> to binary again. Why not implement it in ioctl and then call the same
> functions in the /proc API. ie:
> [...]
> It would make things much more uniform. People who want to use Perl,
> awk and cat could parse /proc and others who need more speed and efficiency
> could use the ioctl() interface.
You just described the sysctl() interface.
-Dan