Re: proced.el [was: docstrings in dired.el]

[Richard M Stallman]

    Well, maybe at least consider refactoring the current Lisp code so
    that the code which relies on `ps' is limited to a few functions with
    well-defined interfaces.

I agree that would be good.

                              Then someone else could reimplement them in
    a portable fashion.

I tend to think it is better to leave this unportable code in Lisp
than to move it to C, because I think the amount of unportable
code in C would be much much more.