Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: sysfs vs. procfs, devfs vs. ufs ? | From | Robert Love <> | Date | Sat, 08 Nov 2003 19:28:44 -0500 |
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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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