Re: /proc guidelines and sysctl

[david parsons]

In article <[e-mail]>,
Alan Cox  <[e-mail]> wrote:
>> [e-mail] (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?

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