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SubjectRe: sysfs vs. procfs, devfs vs. ufs ?
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On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 22:28, Nico Schottelius wrote:

> what is the intention of sysfs?
> is it a replacement/addition to procfs?

sysfs is a filesystem used to export the device model (a tree of data
structures representing the devices in a system) to user-space in a
clean and efficient way.

procfs is a more generic (and less elegant) filesystem for exporting
anything to user-space.

sysfs only replaces procfs in so far as relevant interfaces, such as
those related to hardware. process information should remain in procfs.

/proc is not going anywhere.

Robert Love


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