Magic filesystems are too clever [LWN.net]

Magic filesystems are too clever

Posted Oct 30, 2009 21:33 UTC (Fri) by foom (subscriber, #14868)
In reply to: Magic filesystems are too clever by nix
Parent article: /proc and directory permissions

While I certainly agree that /proc/$PID is a useful feature...

> sysctls [...] not shell-compatible

Say what? "sysctl -w variable=value" is quite shell-friendly. For kernel *configuration*, I think the
sysctl interface made (and still makes!) a lot more sense than the 20 different mechanisms added
since then.

"sysctl -a | grep Whatever" is just as good -- perhaps even better -- than recursive grep against
/proc/sys, /sys/, and whatever the new-userspace-interface-of-the-month this month is...

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