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From: John Levon <moz@compsoc.man.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: PROPOSAL: dot-proc interface [was: /proc stuff]
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On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 06:48:39PM +0100, Jakob Østergaard wrote:

> Where's the policy ?   The only policy I see is the text-mode GUI in the
> existing proc interface

well exactly

> - and that is one place where I actually *like* the
> policy as a user (sysadmin)

"meminfo" versus "cat /proc/meminfo" is not too great a leap in 2.7, when
the back-compat stuff gets dropped.

regards
john

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