Re: system call for process information?

[john slee]

On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 07:52:41PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
> 
> > Bloat removal: being able to run without /proc mounted.
> >
> > We don't have "kernel speed". We have kernel-mode screwing around
> > with text formatting.
> 
> Sounds like you might want to maintain an external patch
> for the embedded folks...

or perhaps a patch to remove the non-procfs stuff from proc - leaving
just /proc/[0-9]+ and /proc/self...

that way top/ps/ still mostly work without patches and you dont have all
the other stuff that you don't need (perhaps make a separate kernfs?).

i *am* aware of the previous flamewars over this :-) but it does appear
to me a more generally useful compromise in the anti-bloat case.

j. (who likes proc as it is now)