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[drjohnnyfever]

You are aware that socket(2) and ioctl(2) are actual system calls and not /proc /sys special file interfaces right?...

[drjohnnyfever]

I really don't understand what you are saying. If ioctl and sockets were equivalent to special files Plan 9 wouldn't have replaced them with special files...

[drjohnnyfever]

I'm not asserting FreeBSD's approach is superior, I'm am however more used to it. I think the UNIX Philosophy argument in favor of procfs is pretty weak....

[drjohnnyfever]

I find it interesting that Linux and FreeBSD went in opposite directions on this. FreeBSD deprecated the procfs interface (which as far as I know is implemented...