On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Darren Reed wrote:

: Are you aware of where Linux has gone with respect to procfs and the above
: and if so, what are your thoughts about their approach to solving this
: problem ?

: For those that aren't aware of where they've gone, they now have files such
: as /proc/net/route with which you can do "cat /proc/net/route"

: In each case the output is all ASCII.

If we were to implement such a beast, it should use binary structures, not
ASCII output.  Programs that need ASCII can open a pipe from netstat.

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-- Todd Vierling (Personal tv@pobox.com; Bus. todd_vierling@xn.xerox.com)