Re: sysfs & procfs

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On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 12:48:53PM +0530, S kris wrote:
> 
> Can somebody tell me the difference between sysfs and procfs.

They are completly different things.  sysfs shows all of the devices
(virtual and real) and their inter-connectedness within your system.
procfs is a grab bag collection of whatever crud people wanted to export
from the kernel at the moment and didn't know where else to put it.

Oh and procfs contains process information, which is the only real valid
use for it :)

Mount sysfs and poke around, you should see the difference pretty
easily.

greg k-h
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