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diff --git a/hurd/translator/procfs.mdwn b/hurd/translator/procfs.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..70448e94 --- /dev/null +++ b/hurd/translator/procfs.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +[[!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]] + +<http://www.nongnu.org/hurdextras/#procfs> |