[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] Although there is no standard (POSIX or other) for the layout of the `/proc` pseudo-filesystem, it turned out a very useful facility in GNU/Linux and other systems, and many tools concerned with process management use it. (`ps`, `top`, `htop`, `gtop`, `killall`, `pkill`, ...) Instead of porting all these tools to use [[libps]] (Hurd's official method for accessing process information), they could be made to run out of the box, by implementing a Linux-compatible `/proc` filesystem for the Hurd. The goal is to implement all `/proc` functionality needed for the various process management tools to work. (On Linux, the `/proc` filesystem is used also for debugging purposes; but this is highly system-specific anyways, so there is probably no point in trying to duplicate this functionality as well...) *Status*: Madhusudan.C.S has implemented a new, fully functional [[procfs|madhusudancs]] for [[GSoC 2008|community/gsoc/2008]]. # [[New Implementation by Jérémie Koenig|jkoenig]] # Old Implementation from [[open_issues/HurdExtras]]