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Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2001 17:32:34 +0100
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To: Stuart Young <sgy@amc.com.au>
CC: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PROPOSAL: dot-proc interface [was: /proc stuff]
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Stuart Young wrote:
> 
> At 11:05 PM 4/11/01 -0500, Alexander Viro wrote:
> 
> >On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Stuart Young wrote:
> >
> > > Any reason we can't move all the process info into something like
> > > /proc/pid/* instead of in the root /proc tree?
> >
> >Thanks, but no thanks.  If we are starting to move stuff around, we
> >would be much better off leaving in /proc only what it was supposed
> >to contain - per-process information.
> 

We could add a file into /proc like /proc/processes that contains once
all process informations that some programs like top or ps can read only
Once.
It could save a lot of time in kernel mode scanning the process list for
each process.
later, a new version of ps or top could simply stat /proc/processes and
if it exists uses it to give informations to the user.
What do you think of this idea ?


SpaceWalker

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