On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 10:34:56PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Passing data around as text is what Plan 9 does, whereas the Hurd uses > dedicated interfaces and RPCs.
It also uses translators to add easy access to those interfaces through files. Personally, I don't care where /proc comes from, or if it's Hurd or not. We all use it. A lot of programs use it. It makes sense to rely on it. The problem is actually traditional /proc versus Linux /proc filled with additional (sometimes unrelated) information. The Hurd shouldn't expect those, but Debian does. If I'm right, procfs is outside the main Hurd repository because it's not the original procfs server. We could probably merge it in one day though. -- Richard Braun
