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On 7/6/06, Iain Buchanan <iaindb@××××××××××××.au> wrote: |
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> Someone mentioned that /proc is deprecated for 2.6? is this correct? Is |
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> there a /sys alternative to /proc/self/status? |
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Oh, I don't think /proc itself is deprecated. After all, ps, pstree, |
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top and so on still use it. And it is not mentioned in |
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/usr/src/linux/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt. There are |
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some things in /proc that will go away (/proc/pci, for example), but |
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it seems that /proc should be around for a good while yet. It is |
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theoretically possible that someone could build a kernel without proc |
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filesystem support, but I'm not sure how useful such a kernel would |
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be! |
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Also, if I were going to use /proc for this (and I'm not saying I |
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would, I really don't like it, but it's not my project), I would |
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either read /proc/self/cmdline or do a readlink on /proc/self/exe. |
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The readlink option would give you the actual path to the program |
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being run. |
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-Richard |
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