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by Retr0id 936 days ago
Could you elaborate? To me there seems extremely little overlap there (I'm familiar with both the procfs and linux's ptrace APIs, but not OpenBSD's ptrace).
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Ptrace could an equivalent of what /proc was originally supposed to be, before it got repurposed for a bunch of sysctl-like purposes.
Interesting. I didn't know much about /proc's original design intent, and Wikipedia indeed says "the design of procfs aimed to replace the ptrace system call used for process tracing", citing https://lucasvr.gobolinux.org/etc/Killian84-Procfs-USENIX.pd... ("Processes as Files", USENIX 1984)