Messages in this thread | | | From | (david parsons) | Subject | Re: /proc guidelines and sysctl | Date | 8 Jan 2000 18:47:46 -0800 |
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In article <linux.kernel.E126y9I-0000X0-00@the-village.bc.nu>, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote: >> torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds) writes: >> >I'll accept a patch that turns sysctl into a proc-only thing. >> Linus, >> how about systems where there is no choice to have a /proc Filesystem? > >For embedded systems I can see it is an issue, /proc is simply too large >to include just for a few constants.
Just how large IS proc, anyway, and is this even noticable in the steadily increasing size of the kernel?
____ david parsons \bi/ It is difficult to fit a 900k ramdisk and a 790k \/ kernel on a 1.44mb floppy.
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