Subject: Re: sysctl vs. virtual filesystems.
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: Matthew Mondor <mmondor@gobot.ca>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/16/2002 19:18:19
On Fri, 21 Jun 2002 21:46:19 -0400
"Gary Thorpe" <gat7634@hotmail.com> wrote:

> >Linux places it under /proc. echo value >/proc/path/to/blah
> 
> Isn't information like what linux provides via /proc supposed to go in /kern 
> on NetBSD? Isn't /proc supposed to be STRICTLY for process information and 
> /kern (kernfs) for setting/reading system variables?

I fully agree; NetBSD is not Linux anyways and does not have to follow
it's ways of doing things... With fstat and other variants the need for
/proc is reduced alot as well