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mike@emgee.co.uk (mike) writes:

> Ben Smithurst (ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) wrote:
> : Tom Bird wrote:
> 
> : > It didn't like my 486's network card (Realtek 8019) which is supposedly
> : > NE2000 compatible, completely missed the replacement I found for it
> : > which was stamped "Netware Certified" and known working, both cards had
> : > at some time worked perfectly under Linux on the same machine, no decent
> : > /proc stuff, shite default shell.  I suppose it's 90% me being used to
> : > Linux.
> 
> : I don't know about the network card. I kind of agree that Linux's /proc
> : is kinda nice, but I'm sure you can get all the information somewhere
> : else in FreeBSD (perhaps I'm strange in thinking filesystems are for
> : storing files more than anything else).
> 
> Of course filesystems are means of accessing files.
> It's unix everything's a file.

And in Linux-2.2.50+, or thereabouts, SysVIPC SHM segments are also
files, in /var/shm.

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