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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!enews.sgi.com!news.sgi.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!129.34.139.15!newsgate.watson.ibm.com!newsjunkie.ans.net!newsfeeds.ans.net!ns2.ny.ubs.com!usenet From: Richard Campbell <ric@ny.ubs.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: /proc (was Solaris 2.6) I guess we should talk. I'm free pretty much all day Re: /proc (was Soalris 2.6) Date: Thu, 05 Dec 1996 09:34:05 -0500 Organization: Union Bank of Switzerland Lines: 14 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <32A6DD5C.2EF4@ny.ubs.com> References: <32986299.AC7@mail.esrin.esa.it> <57djlg$bks@agate.berkeley.edu> <57dkbq$bsr@panix2.panix.com> <casper.329abb76@mail.fwi.uva.nl> <57ej3a$7ij@panix2.panix.com> <casper.329ae8f2@mail.fwi.uva.nl> <57hhcp$kp9@innocence.interface-business.de> <mkl.849534999@rob.cs.tu-bs.de> <casper.32a2f5ee@mail.fwi.uva.nl> <32A535A3.167EB0E7@lehman.com> <casper.32a541be@mail.fwi.uva.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: gauguin.ny.ubs.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.solaris:91560 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1691 > ...what has changed is /proc, > instead of just one file, it's now exploded into little files & > directories (binary files), pretty much like the original > /proc design documents said it should have been. One feature I'd like to see is to have core files produced under the /proc tree somewhere, presumably backed by tmp/swap space. It's a drag to have large core files produced by the kernel in the current directory when that directory is NFS/AFS/DFS mounted. There's no real need to have those MBs of core data written across the network; I'd rather they were stored locally allong with other proc info. ric