Registering values at Proc area

Sun and said:

Please don't top-post, and trim your posts. Message rearranged and trimmed for easier reading:

I'd say you're totally missing the point. proc is a pseudofilesystem designed to show-store information about currently running processes, although it now has some system configuration settings in it. Lew's comments are accurate and sensible AFAICT. Make a directory calledvar-run-$APPNAME, write stuff to individual files within that directory. It'll be a whole lot easier to do it that way. Depending on exactly what you need to store, another directory may be more appropriate thanvar-run.

Or you could use Unix shared memory if you don't want to use the filesystem--if Java provides an interface to shmopen() and other shm* functions that doesn't totally suck. Shared memory is one of the main

you use it at all in a Java program, you lose any hope of having that "platform independence" that Sun tried to sell everybody on. And if you know your Java program is going to run only on Linux machines, you could write it in C(++), Perl, Python, or Ruby, and have it run twice as fast and use 1-4 of the system resources. HTH,

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