Re: Reflection and /proc

["Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>]

Dominik Kubla writes:
> On Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 09:51:40AM +0100, Davide Bolcioni wrote:

> Right, because the correct answer to your question is getrusage(2).
...
> Wrong answer: getmntent(2). 

Clearly we have a documentation problem. Documentation must be
easy to search. (that means no misses _and_ no false hits)

> corollary to that "read the fucking standards". The Linux community has the
> somewhat disturbing  habit of reinventing  the wheel just to  be different.
> This is no longer going to work: we have hit the mainstream folks!

Wrong. We have hit the mainstream; we can set the standards.
Everybody is following the Linux API now. (UnixWare, BSD...)

> NLS in kernel space is a no-no.

It is needed for full international acceptance. (including non-nerds)

> We had this discussion over and over again.
> A user-space  daemon OTOH is  possible but  will need kernel  support, like
> IBM's message  codes, and there you  go again... Who will  run the registry
> for those codes?

I don't know, but this isn't a new problem for us. We already have
to track ioctl numbers and device numbers. We used to need to track
function call addresses for a.out libraries. We also must track many
minor things, like system call numbers and signal numbers.
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