GNU os suggestions -- system data interfaces

[Guy Harris]

 >Well, that's part of it.   The other part is that thrashing through
 >the kernel's name list takes a lot of time on small machines.   It is
 >highly undesirable to have to do this on a regular basis.

In which case perhaps "ps" should somehow cache the results of a scan
through the name list (and through "/dev", etc.) - as both the 4.3BSD
and later S5 versions do.