Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
By author: Chris Friesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> I'm doing some kernel work that will export tuneables to userspace. In
> 2.4 I would have used /proc/sys/kernel, but now there is /sys, which was
> supposed to be for system information.
>
> However, a bit of poking around in /sys didn't reveal any obvious place
> to put it. Is current practice to still put this sort of thing in /proc?
>
/proc/sys/kernel, using the sysctl internals, yes.
Note that the use of the sysctl(2) system call is highly deprecated,
but the /proc/sys filesystem tree is not; the reason is that the
numeric API used by the former is unstable.
-hpa
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