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diff --git a/hurd/translator/procfs.mdwn b/hurd/translator/procfs.mdwn index 404a6764..bc22530f 100644 --- a/hurd/translator/procfs.mdwn +++ b/hurd/translator/procfs.mdwn @@ -1,4 +1,5 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] +[[!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 @@ -8,8 +9,41 @@ 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 + +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/>, +branch *jkoenig/master*. + + +# Internals + + +## Old Implementation from [[open_issues/HurdExtras]] + <http://www.nongnu.org/hurdextras/#procfs> + +## Files opened by various tools + * [[`ps`|procps]] * [[`top`|top]] * [[`htop`|htop]] |