Re: Wmmon under FreeBSD

[Dom.Mitchell () PALMERHARVEY CO UK (Dominic Mitchell)]

On Tue, Dec 21, 1999 at 03:35:34PM -0500, Ajax wrote:
> An alternative solution would be to read such information from kernfs,
> usually (although optionally) mounted at /kern.  kernfs is the *bsd
> equivalent to many of the files in linux's /proc.  This would, of
> course, require the app to be rewritten to use /kern instead of
> /dev/kmem, but well worth it in my opinion.
>
> I should like to know why more apps don't require the *bsd {proc,kern}fs
> interface.  They were, after all, designed to reduce the need for read
> access to /dev/kmem.

Under modern BSD4.4, the preferred method is using sysctl(3),(8), as
opposed to kernfs.

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Dom Mitchell -- Palmer & Harvey McLane -- Unix Systems Administrator

    "EDLIN comes free with MS-DOS, and is expensive at the price."

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