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From: paul@xciv.org (Paul Civati)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Question 2: /procfs and /kernfs
Date: 3 Jun 1997 22:59:31 GMT
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In article <5mq4m0$d83@innocence.interface-business.de>,
j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) writes:
>> Why and for what reason should I compile a kernel with support for
>> (a) the process file system PROCFS ?
>
> ps(1) uses it, albeit not exclusively (i.e., it uses procfs for part
> of its information, and /dev/mem for another part).
But ps does work if you're not using procfs, so what does having a
procfs enable ps to do differently/better?
-Paul-