Re: Getting system info from the kernel

Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com)
Tue, 16 Nov 1999 06:38:59 +0000

Alexander Viro wrote:
> It would be reall nice if we had a generally accepted library with sane
> interface that could be used by everything. Then the changes would be much
> easier. Right now we have all sorts of spiffy little utilities (seriously
> resembling DOS BBS collections - bad symptom in itself), each of them
> doing its own thing in its own way. Yes, if they would directly use the
> kernel memory it would be even worse. But even in the current form it's a
> mess.

libgtop from the GNOME project

> > For the sysctl program used in boot scripts, add /proc/sys/ to the list.
>
> /proc/sys is pretty regular and reasonable. Besides, sysctl(8) should not
> use procfs - all we need is sysctlbyname(2) (check BSD manpages).

ah, nice!

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