[lsb-discuss] Documentation proposal for /proc and /sys

Jeff Licquia jeff at licquia.org
Fri Aug 1 07:16:36 PDT 2008


Jiri Dluhos wrote:
> At the LSB wiki, I have discovered that there is a proposal for /proc
> and /sys directories to be standardized:
> 
> http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/LSB_Kernel_Interfaces
> 
> I concluded that if this (IMHO very useful) effort will proceed, it will
> need some documentation.
> 
> Can I propose using my pet project, the www.lindevdoc.org wiki, for
> placing the documentation there? I am ready to help both with
> infrastructure and with the documentation itself.
> 
> (I know I am dense with this, but please bear with me - anyway, I am
> paying some money for the site and so on... :-) )

Right now, we are planning to propose a limited standard for the 
/proc/[pid] section, as well as /proc/self.  This turns out to be needed 
for the best-effort dynamic linking work.

I hope to post a proposal soon to lsb-discuss.



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