In message <20011209225526.A3441@rek.tjls.com>, Thor Lancelot Simon writes:
>Please explain to me which (if any) of this state is actually per-process.
>Otherwise, explain to me why we should grow the horrible warts on our
>/proc filesystem that Linux has.

Strong agreement!  One of the most deeply *WRONG* things in Linux is that
/proc seems to be a mismatched conglomerate of /proc, /kern, and a few
randomly selected portal filesystems.

If you want information about the kernel's state, look in /kern.

-s