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The problem is Wikipedia being misleading again. They each support a proc filesystem. There is no single the proc filesystem that they support.

A case in point: FreeBSD's /proc is very different to Linux's /proc, and most of what one would go to /proc on Linux for is obtained via sysctl() on FreeBSD, with a lot less in the way of machine readable → human readable → machine readable busywork formatting and re-parsing involved.



Roger Faulkner's 1991 paper is good read. The /proc he describes looks alien if you come from a Linux only background.

https://www.usenix.org/sites/default/files/usenix_winter91_f...


By default, FreeBSD, just like OpenBSD, doesn’t have a /proc. I’m actually running a server without it.




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