Re: /proc wrapper (library)

From: Alexander Sirotkin (demiurg_at_ti.com)
Date: 05/31/04 

Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 11:02:02 +0300
To: Bob Smith <bsmith@linuxtoys.org>

Sounds interesting, although using RDBMS for such task seems
a little bit exaggerated. I'm not sure if it's good idea to base such
utilities as free and top on RDBMS.

Thanks anyway...

Bob Smith wrote:

> I am going to build an application using my RTA
> package (http://www.runtimeaccess.com) that would
> map the fields in /proc into tables in a database.
> You would read the database using any of the
> PostgreSQL DB tools or libraries. While not a
> complete solution, this might be part of what you
> want. Contact me if you would like to keep posted
> on my progress.
>
> This application is part of a tutorial/book that a
> group of us are writing on Linux appliances.
>
> Bob Smith
>
>
>
> Alexander Sirotkin wrote:
>
>> I thought it would be nice to have a wrapper library
>> for /proc filesystem, so that everybody would not have
>> to parse it.
>>
>> I was wondering if anybody ever saw such a thing.
>>
>> I came across procinfo library, but it seems that the
>> project is dead...
>> 

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