linux-kernel - Any faster and more efficient way to repeatedly access /proc/*

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Message-Id: <20070308165507.AMI36767@dougfood.mirapoint.com>
Date:	Thu,  8 Mar 2007 16:55:07 -0800 (PST)
From:	<mchu@...apoint.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Any faster and more efficient way to repeatedly
 access /proc/*

Hi,

Is there a faster way to access "/proc/*" other than open it as a file and reading/parsing contents? e.g. fopen("/proc/stat", "r");

In BSD, there is the kvm method of access, which is relatively fast (light weight)

In Linux, if I have a daemon that keeps track of these statistics, it's a hell way to manage.

Imagine, having to probe the stat of each process?

Thanks,
Michael
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