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authorThomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com>2012-07-12 16:14:10 +0200
committerThomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com>2012-07-12 16:14:10 +0200
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@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation,
-Inc."]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 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]]."]]"""]]
+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
@@ -23,13 +23,23 @@ 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]].
+Ther was an implementation in [[open_issues/HurdExtras]],
+<http://www.nongnu.org/hurdextras/#procfs>.
+Madhusudan.C.S has implemented a new, fully functional [[procfs|madhusudancs]] for
+[[GSoC 2008|community/gsoc/2008]].
-# [[New Implementation by Jérémie Koenig|jkoenig]]
+In August 2010, Jérémie Koenig [published another, new
+version](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-08/msg00165.html).
+This can be found in <http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/procfs.git/>.
+Testing it is as simple as this:
-# Old Implementation from [[open_issues/HurdExtras]]
+ $ git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/hurd/procfs.git
+ $ cd procfs/
+ $ git checkout master
+ $ make
+ $ settrans -ca proc procfs --compatible
+ $ ls -l proc/
-<http://www.nongnu.org/hurdextras/#procfs>
+[[Open issues|jkoenig/discussion]].