From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 11 18:53:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA11269 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 18:53:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles78.castles.com [208.214.165.78]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA11238 for ; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 18:53:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA07015; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 18:48:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199811120248.SAA07015@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Brian Feldman cc: =?X-UNKNOWN?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= , Andrzej Bialecki , daeron@Wit401305.student.utwente.nl, shawn@cpl.net, osa@etrust.ru, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: StarOffice-5.0... In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 11 Nov 1998 20:53:57 EST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 18:48:18 -0800 From: Mike Smith Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id SAA11255 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > > Hmm, if we should have a Linsux compatible /proc, it really should be > > a beast mounted on /compat/linux/proc. If you provide this, I'm sure > > it will be received with open arms :) > > Linux_procfs sounds good, but if a Linux procfs is implemented... erm.... > you see, wouldn't this waste resources? unless we'd be emulating the > ENTIRE linux proc (which is total crap, and shouldn't exist), it's > probably better just to add it to the standard procfs. It's hideously crap, and unfortunately syntax-incompatible with ours, which is why we'd have to have a complete emulation. Unfortunately, the Linux procfs is also baroque beyond the abilities of the structure of our relatively simple-minded procfs to handle. It's more like a filesystem manifestation of the sysctl tree. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message