Re: What /proc should contain [was: /proc/driver/microcode]

[H. Peter Anvin]

Followup to:  <Pine.LNX.4.04.10002241303150.12259-100000@beaker>
By author:    Ricky Beam <[e-mail]>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Andrzej Krzysztofowicz wrote:
> >I think that better resolution for availability of /proc information would
> >be a good thing.
> 
> Several have been suggested, but Linus hasn't liked any of them.
> 
> Personally, I'd like to see all of the sysconf() information vectored
> directly from the kernel.  Make sysconf() a system call (if it isn't
> already) and then make every one of the POSIX/UNIX98 standard variables
> available from the kernel -- most of it should already be in the kernel
> somewhere.
> 
> (_SC_NPROCESSORS_* (without parsing cpuinfo) would certainly shut me up :-))
> 

NAK!

A lot of these are information about the C library.

Some, definitely, would make sense, but not all.

	-hpa
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