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| author | jbranso@dismail.de <jbranso@dismail.de> | 2024-10-16 19:30:23 -0400 |
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| committer | Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> | 2024-11-12 00:36:27 +0100 |
| commit | b1b89e285609f05411f55b652c4dffa06eb163b9 (patch) | |
| tree | 48b3cd9a7da183469f30e0c81fea806f3237cdfb /hurd/translator | |
| parent | f2a943794560bf21626f301b50ada1f05a633992 (diff) | |
tweak the translator/procfs page
* hurd/translator.mdwn: link to procfs
* hurd/translator.mdwn: tweak the page a little.
Message-ID: <20241016233039.17856-7-jbranso@dismail.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'hurd/translator')
| -rw-r--r-- | hurd/translator/procfs.mdwn | 14 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/hurd/translator/procfs.mdwn b/hurd/translator/procfs.mdwn index b3753592..8735e88c 100644 --- a/hurd/translator/procfs.mdwn +++ b/hurd/translator/procfs.mdwn @@ -15,15 +15,15 @@ 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. +accessing process information), they run out of the box, via the +Hurd's Linux-compatible `procfs` at `/proc`. (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...) -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...) +# History of procfs -Ther was an implementation in [[open_issues/HurdExtras]], +There 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 |